Urban permaculture gardening with Michael and Julia Guerra
Permaculture Gardening – Pt1
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Jul 092009
Iron Street edible forest garden
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Apr 292009
Urban Forest Gardens
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Apr 132009
Inspired by Robert Hart’s forest garden at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire, tranquil and abundant edible landscapes are now springing up throughout our towns and cities
Forest Gardening – Part 2
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Mar 292009
A YEAR IN A FOREST GARDEN Perennial crops for a changing climate by Martin Crawford
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Mar 282009
Forest gardener Martin Crawford, who recently appeared on BBC 2s Natural World programme A Farm for the Future, gives a taster of his DVD A Year in a Forest Garden, which will be out in April. Martin created a forest garden 15 years ago that is full of unusual edible plants trees, shrubs and ground cover plants which yield an abundant crop of food with minimum effort. His book Creating a Forest Garden: perennial crops for a changing climate comes out in Spring 2010. www.greenbooks.co.uk …
Mar 272009
feralkevin discusses the food value of his balcony container plants. He talks about Campanula (bellflower), Camellia sinensis (green tea and black tea), nasturtium, calendula, — and human urine as a high nitrogen fertilizer. DISCLAIMER: This posting does not claim to be an intstructional guide to eating wild plants. Never eat a plant unless your completely sure of its edibility, and do not use this posting or other feralkevin postings to identify plants. …
Forest Gardening – Part 1
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Mar 272009
edible wild stinging nettle permaculture
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Mar 262009
In this video, Matt Berry of the Regenerative Design Institue (RDI) discusses the finer points of stinging nettle harvesting. Harvesting nettles can really adhere to the principles of permaculture by using the surplus nature has to offer. In many places, nettle is in extreme abundance and requires little or no input to grow. In this video, Matt shows us a particular type of sustainable wildcrafting technique. If you top the nettle at the right time when it is young and good to eat, more …
Forest Gardening (1/2)
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Mar 252009
Mar 202009
This is a clip from the film “Farming With Nature” about permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer. We went to film Sepp Holzer for about 2,5 years. He created an edible landscape on 1500 m above sea level. Between the pinetree monocultures of Austria he built the biggest functioning permaculture landscape of Europe. You can see all films about Sepp Holzer on a DVD called “Sepp Holzer´s Permaculture” published by the filmmakers, Malcolm St.Julian Bown and Heidi Snel. Find the DVD at www.ecofilm.de …