Permaculture Food Forests Talk

Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

A talk by Jason Ross at the July Permaculture Dunedin Meeting – All Welcome
Permaculture Dunedin holds monthy meetings with stimulating and inspiring talks on all things Permaculture.

17th July 2013

Meeting starts at 5.30pm at THE APARTMENT upstairs from The Malcalm Trust, 174 Princes Street (enter “The Apartment” from Dowling Street).

Jason Ross – Owner / Operator of Sutherland Nursery and Edible Garden Design, based in Waitati. Works with Waitati Stores, growing vegetables, herbs and fruit for Taste Nature, Dunedin’s Organic Shop.

Forests and woodlands provide great inspiration in their diversity, resilience, self perpetuation and beauty. Can we use a forest model to inspire design for integrated edible and useful gardens and landscapes? I have been inspired by this question for the last ten years. In this talk I will outline some key aspects of temperate food forest design and thinking.
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EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO UPCOMING MEETINGS:

All meetings start at 5.30pm at THE APARTMENT upstairs from The Malcalm Trust, 174 Princes Street (enter “The Apartment” from Dowling Street).

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Neighbourhood Nirvana

Monday, July 8th, 2013

NZ Gardener Article - Neighbourhood Nirvana

It was really nice to have Robert and Robyn Guyton over recently, they were quite taken with how my kids graze from our family’s edible garden. Robert said he might like to write something about the diversity of plants we enjoy in our little section, but I soon forgot his comments until folk started telling me he had written an article in New Zealand Gardener. Check out the July issue, Robert is a great writer and a great explorer of the wilder side of food gardening.

Sometimes at the dinner table I am playing the role of trying to get my kids to eat some salad when I remember, that actually, during the day, between tree climbing, making bug houses and trampolining, they have been tearing off brussel sprouts and chunks of cabbage from the garden beds and munching them happily raw.

I never thought that our edible garden would be such a big part of our kids outdoor play time, or that they would be self grazing from it! So I suggest to anyone going to have kids to integrate edibles into their backyard play space. Your kids will end up teaching you a few things about the joys of an edible garden. “Dad have some of this kale it so sweet!”