Sheri Menelli wrote:
Why did you write it?
What is your favorite case study?
How many years have you been involved in forest gardening? What is your background?
Is there one thing that surprised you recently about nature or something that you learned?
Sheri
Forest Gardening in Practice: The first comprehensive review of temperate forest gardens. Case studies of private, community and commercial sites. Order from https://reallifeforestgardens.com/book
Tomas Remiarz wrote:how a forest garden is supposed to work, but they say very little about how people actually fit it into their busy lives with jobs, family, neighbours and so on...
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Xisca Nicolas wrote:
What did you conclude (about how a forest garden is supposed to work)?
You’ll have to read my book for that![]()
In short, the strategies are as diverse as the people.
what is different between a garden and a forest garden?
A forest garden is a specific type of garden. In a way I much prefer Dave Jacke’s term, “edible ecosystem”, which hints at the possibility of using other structures. But in the end the “forest” in FG is more a metaphor than an instruction – what we aim for is supposed to work like a natural ecosystem, but it doesn’t have to look like one. In that sense a forest garden is like any other permaculture garden, and combines well with many other ways of using small and medium sized spaces.
I want room for animals, so I see that if I want to cultivate just for me, I will have to fight all critters who want to eat too! And if we live on veggies and good fruits, well, we actually grow the most tender stuff, and they are good for other animals... After all, have a look at a cabage after the hen has eaten it.... she leaves the tough fiber and has eaten the most tender parts!
You can design a forage garden that priorities the animals, or a garden where you allow for both humans and other species to share the crops and ideally share some of the labour – chicken (and ducks even more so) are good for pest control and nutrient cycling. On a larger scale, there are many variants of silvopasture out there that combine trees with grazing animals and/or field crops.
If I grow and eat the animals, then I do not have to fight and prtect, I just eat the eaters.... just the surplus, and also I can leave more weeds and local grasses and plants. Usually they are ones that we cannot eat, and animals can.
That is part of the silvopasture approach, which you could also use on a smaller scale. Except that most people aren’t too keen on fresh animal manure in their domestic garden, and free range animals will poop wherever they like!
Forest Gardening in Practice: The first comprehensive review of temperate forest gardens. Case studies of private, community and commercial sites. Order from https://reallifeforestgardens.com/book
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
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