Permaculture - E-book - Why a Vegetable Garden? - section out of my book.
Why a Vegetable Garden?
Healthy forest ecosystems are self-maintaining, self-fertilizing, and self-renewing. Wouldn't it be nice to grow food in an ecosystem like that in your back yard? Well, you can! Edible forest gardening is the design of gardens that mimic the structure and function of natural forests, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, and "pharmaceuticals." I hope learning this forest gardening will inspire and give you practical ideas, images, and examples, as well as information on the multiple uses of forest garden plants.
The garden is designed to meet several goals:
- to produce food
- to produce forage for beneficial insects, pollinators, chickens and song birds
- to create wildlife habitat
- to nurture our bodies through herbal teas and concoctions
- to create beauty and sense of well being
Permaculture - Wild Olive Guest Farm:
Permaculture is both a lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature's patterns (ecology).
The word 'permaculture', coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a Portmanteau-style contraction of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture.
Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these 'ecological truisms' to one's own circumstances in all realms of human activity. Please call me on Tel: +27+28-7542719 or e-mail me to order my permaculture course book enquires@wildolivefarm.co.za.
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