Special
Event: Edible Forest
Gardens
Workshop
& Fruit Tasting
(Sign
up for 2011) UPDATE:
WE ARE FULL for 2010! Please link above and sign up for next year. We
look forward to seeing you some time soon.
With
Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
October 29-31, 2010 Fruit Tasting Throughout
FRIDAY: October
29, 6pm check-in with snacks, 7pm-9pm class. SATURDAY:
October 30, 9am - 9pm (w/ lunch and dinner) SUNDAY:
October 31, 9am-1pm (w/lunch)
Holyoke & Southampton Massachusetts
Inspiring videos to get us pumped for the event:
Here is a video clip from our workshop last year!
A great video by Kriscan about the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden
...Learn edible forest garden design while eating from beautiful food
forests.
Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural
ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis
on low-maintenance perennial crops. Design and plant selection help
provide fertility, control of weeds and pests, and more. Come for a
hands-on introduction to this fascinating and delicious approach to
food production.
• Sample the season’s harvest of chestnuts, walnuts,
hazels, kiwis,
persimmons, pawpaws and more.
• Tour the garden used as the case study in Edible Forest
Gardens
Volume II with its designer-managers
• Visit Tripple Brook Farm, with over 600 low-maintenance
fruits,
nuts, bamboos, edible groundcovers, and hundreds of useful species
from around the world and our own Northeast bioregion.
• Plant an edible forest garden and learn design process.
Registration:
To register contact
jonathan@permaculturenursery.com phone:
(413) 303-0740.
Course fee is $200. Includes Saturday lunch and dinner and
Sunday lunch.
Cancelation
policy: October 1, we can
provide a full refund. October 15,
half refund.
Lodging:
A list of local lodging options are available on
request.
Opening night,
Friday, October 29, 6pm check-in, 7pm-9pm class.
Eric Toensmeier is the award-winning author of Perennial Vegetables
and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens. He has studied permaculture
and useful plants for twenty years.
Jonathan Bates, founder of Food Forest Farm and
www.permaculturenursery.com,
co-designed and co-manages the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden with Eric
Toensmeier.
This example of an intensively managed forest garden has inspired
hundreds of visitors.
Tripple Brook Farm has one of the nation’s finest collections
of
useful plants, with over 1,200 species on site. Founder Steve Breyer
has decades of experience growing low-maintenance perennial food
crops.
If you would like to order plants and have them delivered or schedule a
time to pick them up click
here.
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