A Food Forest Garden - Part 2

Robert Hart's forest garden

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Education

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• forest
• gardening
• garden
• robert
• hart
• permaculture
• companion
• planting
• plants
• ecology
• environment
• food
• edible
• landscape

[PakaNoHida]

Someday, farmers might go back to the old ways.. this will be the way since there are food forests that are now over 300 years old still "over producing" per acre. Thank you for passing on this knowledge to the world permascience.

[ENDEUARABIA]

I do believe this is the future

[karmaipolis]

Does anyone have a clue about what is he talking about at 5:50. "...thousand (what?) and Alexanders..."

Thanks for your help it's for subtitling.

[vidaripollen]

very nice.

[legaata]

I like his dialect.

[lordmetroid]

@glacialmind101 That is totally unsustainable, the great thing about forst gardens is that they have relative high yield for the very small energy input from a human gardening the forest.

A normal common crop field requires the energy of a few atomic bombs to cultivate per year. Which is not going to be possible to sustain with the increasing scarcity of fossil fuels. Indoor gardening seems even more ludicrus.

[wkjohnston]

@Plozen you can keep corn, not all plants have to be perennials! try the classic 'three sisters' guild with beans and squash - corn leaves and stocks have multiple uses, from wrapping tamales to fodder to mulch. traditional/indigenous (as opposed to modern) methods of growing of corn are ancient and venerable and have an honored, welcome place in any permie food forest garden. just learn how to guild corn and blend it into a food forest. people have been doing it for many centuries. :-)

[Quranite]

well maybe he is not in Ireland. i thought they said he was.

[bgmorse]

There's no reason why you have to have ALL your garden in perennials/food forest. Toby Hemenway's book says go ahead and have an annual vegetable garden if you want. Just don't put it under the trees!

[glacialmind101]

To feed all the people on the planet we will soon have to start growing more indoor crops. I wonder if the principles of eclogical gardening can be combined with new ideas about vertical agriculture.

[Plozen]

Hmmm... I like my garden, and I've applied some principals of agriculture to it... unfortunately, I really want to keep my corn plants, which sadly aren't perennials...