The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape by Dani Baker

NOW A PBS SHOW! Look for new episodes of The Home-Scale Forest Garden on PBS.org or your local station! *2023 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Laurel Medal of Achievement Learn how to create an edible forest garden—perfect for gardeners and growers at any scale! Includes over 100 cold-hardy berry bushes, fruit and nut trees, perennial vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, and more. When market gardener Dani Baker attended a permaculture workshop at her local Cooperative Extension office in upstate New York, she was inspired by its message of working with nature to create a thriving edible garden ecosystem. She immediately launched a new experiment she dubbed the “Enchanted Edible Forest.” In The Home-Scale Forest Garden, Baker shares what she learned as she became a forest gardener, providing a practical, in-depth guide to creating a beautiful, bountiful edible landscape at any scale—from a few dozen square feet to an acre or more. Read more

From the Publisher Includes over 200 color photographs and garden layout illustrations! The Home-Scale Forest Garden is the perfect guide for gardeners of all experience levels who want to work with nature’s model and expand the range of food crops they grow as they embark on their own forest garden adventure. The book includes over 200 photographs and garden layout illustrations for special plant groupings for a range of conditions, including hot, dry sites and shady, moist sites. The layout of my highbush cranberry bed in a sunny, wet site. Illustration by Zoe Chan. In this plant grouping, shade-tolerant ground cover, herbaceous, woody, and vining plants form a dense array under two black locusts. Illustration by Zoe Chan. This is a section of the Curving Hedgerow, featuring plants that can tolerate some shade. Illustration by Zoe Chan. A self-sustaining grouping for a shady hügelkultur mound. Illustration by Zoe Chan. GAIA'S GARDEN THE APPLE GROWER COLD-HARDY FRUITS AND NUTS THE LIVING SOIL HANDBOOK THE RESILIENT FARM AND HOMESTEAD THE LEAN FARM Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 2,461 211 70 581 587 386 Price $16 99 $28 62 $25 49 $24 87 $19 99 $19 39 ALSO FROM CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING no data no data no data no data no data no data