Edible Forest Gardens: Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate-Climate Permaculture
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations:concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your own forest garden. Along the way they present case...
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Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work.Edible Forest Gardens offer an advanced course in ecological gardening--one that will forever change the way you look at plants and your environment. About the Authors: Dave Jacke is the owner of Dynamics Ecological Design Associates and a longtime permaculture teacher and designer. He lives in Keene, New Hampshire. Eric Toensmeier is a plant researcher, agricultural educator, and permaculturist who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: An Invitation to AdventureWhat Is an Edible Forest Garden?Gardening LIKE the Forest vs. Gardening IN the ForestWhere Can You Grow a Forest Garden?The Garden of Eden: It Sounds Great, But Is It Practical?An Invitation to AdventurePart One: Context and Vision1: The Forest and the TreesThe Primal Forest: A RemembranceGardening the ForestForest RemnantsFeature Article 1: Natives and Exotics: Definitions and QuestionsSuburban EcologyGardening in the Industrial ImageLessons LearnedBox 1-1: Shifting the Burden to the Intervenor2: Visions of ParadiseStudy of the Household: Ecology DefinedTales of MimicryAdvantages of Forest MimicryThe Limitations of Forest MimicsSpanning the Gamut: Images of Forest GardensGoals of Forest GardeningRevision the Garden of Eden?Box 2-1: The Principle of Functional InterconnectionCase Study 1: Charlie s GardenPart Two: Ecology: Form and Function in the Forest Garden3: The Five Elements of Forest ArchitectureVegetation LayersFeature Article 2: With All These Layers, What Do I Grow in the Shade?Soil HorizonsDensityPatterningDiversitySummaryBox 3-1: The Principle of Relative LocationCase Study 2: Robert s Garden4: Social Structure: Niches, Relationships and CommunitiesSpecies, Species Niches, and Species RelationshipsMulti-Species Interactions: Frameworks of Social StructureFeature Article 3: Natives and Exotics, Opportunists and InvasivesSocial Structure Design: Strategies and AnchorsChapter SummaryBox 4-1: Niche Analysis: Everybody Does ItBox 4-2: The Principle of Multiple FunctionsBox 4-3: The Principle of Stress and HarmonyBox 4-4: The Competitive Exclusion PrincipleBox 4-5: The Cropping PrincipleBox 4-6: The Principle of RedundancyBox 4-7: The Polyculture Partitioning PrincipleBox 4-8: Ecological Analogs5: Making A Living In The Dark: Structures of the Underground EconomyThe Anatomy of Self-Renewing FertilityFeature Article 4: Parent Materials: The Soil s Nutritional ConstitutionPlant Roots: Engines of the Underground EconomyThe Soil Food WebSummary: Dabbling In The Underground EconomyBox 5-1: The Concept of Limiting FactorsBox 5-2: Specific Replant Disease6: Succession: Four Perspectives on Vegetation DynamicsClassical Linear Succession and ClimaxProgressive Succession to Shifting Mosaic Steady StatePatch Dynamics: Out of Line and Out of BalanceA "Unified Oldfield Theory": Successional CausesFeature Article 5: "Invasive" Plants and the Unified Oldfield TheorySuccession Design: Using the Four ModelsSummary: The Simultaneity of the Four ModelsBox 6-1: The Principle of AllocationBox 6-2: The Law of Vegetation DynamicsBox 6-3: The Law of Dynamic ToleranceCase Study 3: E.F. Schumacher Forest GardenConclusion: Elements, Dynamics, and Desired ConditionsAppendicesAppendix 1: Forest Gardening s "Top 100" SpeciesAppendix 2: Plant Hardiness Zone MapsAppendix 3: Publications and OrganizationsBibliographyGlossaryGeneral Index
