Lesson 2.16 DESIGN - Creating a Food Forest Garden

 

FOOD FOREST COURSE

AGRO-ECONOMY Lesson 2.16 

DESIGN - Creating a Food Forest Garden

 

When planting tropical vegetables, it needs to be kept in mind that they generally take up more space than the average temperate vegetable such as lettuce, beans, and capsicum. Tropical vegetables are by nature perennial, and they grow to a larger proportion in size, and this means that they can overwhelm other plants in the garden and shade them out. It is therefore practical to give them a garden space of their own for that reason. As most tropical vegetables don’t need the same amount of irrigation as the temperate vegetables is another reason to separate them into different gardens. 

 

Tropical vegetables come in all shapes and sizes and for the beginner it is difficult to realise their growth habits and therefore it will be a challenge to place them in an advantageous setting so that one can support another and not crowd another out. So how do we plant these vegetables to their best possible advantage?

 

A food forest garden can supply all the needs for tropical plants with very little watering needed. It is a support system that, as the name implies, supports one another in a natural setting. Take a natural forest for example and feel the difference that surrounds outside and inside of it. Outside of the forest can be hot and uncomfortable whilst inside the forest it will be cooler and more pleasant. That is the effect of micro-climate. A food forest will also create its own micro-climate so that the plants that live within its perimeters won’t suffer the dehydration of being out in the full sun in extended dry periods. 

 

In a natural forest, especially a rain forest, you will observe that there are many layers of growth. In amongst the tall trees are vines that meander from tree to tree, fallen down trees covered in moss creates habitat for wildlife, leaf litter covers the ground and smaller plants grow wherever they find a bit of space. A forest is an eco-system that is quite different than outside of it. A forest also supports a lot more life than outside of it. It is in fact a total support system as one plant often supports another to make this forest a possibility to exist.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison,




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