A great video by Kriscan about the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden
...Learn edible forest garden design while eating from beautiful food
forests.
Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural
ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis
on low-maintenance perennial crops. Design and plant selection help
provide fertility, control of weeds and pests, and more. Come for an introduction
to this fascinating and delicious approach to food production.
• Sample the season’s harvest of chestnuts, walnuts,
hazels, kiwis,
persimmons, pawpaws and more.
• Tour the garden used as the case study in Edible Forest
Gardens
Volume II with its designer-managers
• Visit Tripple Brook Farm, with over 600 low-maintenance
fruits,
nuts, bamboos, edible groundcovers, and hundreds of useful species
from around the world and our own Northeast bioregion.
Registration CLOSED:
Fill out this
online form and
send a check to:
Or contact
jonathan@permaculturenursery.com
phone: (413) 437-0101
SPECIAL PRICING ...
... Register before August 15course fee is $175, after that course fee is $225. Includes Saturday lunch.
Cancelation
policy: September 15, we can
provide a full refund. October 1,
half refund.
Lodging:
We recommend finding your own lodging with friends and family, or
search for local B&B's (Here are two examples: starlightllama.com ,
innnature.com). Closest camping is
http://koa.com/campgrounds/northampton/
Opening night,
Friday, October 14, 6pm check-in, 7pm-9pm class.
Eric Toensmeier is the award-winning author of Perennial Vegetables
and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens. He has studied permaculture
and useful plants for twenty years.
Jonathan Bates, founder of Food Forest Farm and
www.permaculturenursery.com,
co-designed and co-manages the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden with Eric
Toensmeier.
This example of an intensively managed forest garden has inspired
hundreds of visitors.
Tripple Brook Farm has one of the nation’s finest collections
of
useful plants, with over 1,200 species on site. Founder Steve Breyer
has decades of experience growing low-maintenance perennial food
crops.
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