Forest Gardening Workshop
| When: | October 24th , 2010 |
Where: |
Aprovecho Education Center |
| How Much: | $50 |
Turn your yard into an edible food forest!
Imagine small urban yards supporting over 100 species of edible, medicinal, and beneficial plants. Imagine the sense of diversity and abundance, the cool air and the birdsong as you traveled the corridors of berry bushes, nasturtium, and rhubarb topped by apples and plums under an open canopy of chestnut, walnut, and black locust. Imagine the Willamette Valley speckled with a mosaic of food forests. The world! Wow!
Join us as we expand our food forest in the Aprovecho gardens. All proceeds from the attendance for this workshop will go toward financing the purchase of plants.
Course topics include:Forest Garden Design Principles Forest Garden Species for the Pacific Northwest Converting existing Orchards and Gardens into Food Forests Animals in the System Water Harvesting and Dispersal Strategies Compost Tea Sheet Mulching Planting Trees , Shrubs, Tubers, and Sowing Seeds |
Food forestry has happened for millenia in the tropical areas of the world and has occured in indigenous land management practices throughout North America. Forest gardening is bringing perennial, self sufficient, high yielding, and landscape improving agriculture to the temperate climates.
After a morning introduction to the subject, we will spend the afternoon planting a forest garden along the perimeter of Aprovecho's vegetable garden. You will leave this workshop with a firm understanding of the forest gardening discipline and some dirt under your fingernails.
Contact: Abel Kloster or Tao Orion for questions or to enroll. (541) 556-1426 or email: 
PLEASE BRING A SACK LUNCH AND A PAIR OF GLOVES WITH YOU TO THIS WORKSHOP