Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem

Creating an edible food forest is both an art and a science. Learn the 10,000-year-old layered approach to gardening that helps you integrate functional and aesthetic elements into an edible ecological forest garden. Christopher Shein, author of The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture, will talk about how to live in harmony with both nature and neighbors, producing and sharing an abundant food supply with minimal effort in any size space. He advocates creating mutually beneficial plant communities. Ecological considerations such as soil enrichment and resource conservation take permaculture beyond methodology into a committed philosophical approach to garden management.