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Create Your Own Garden of Eden! With climate change, political instability, desertification, and more, what will be left for our children in the years to come? For those cultivating food forests and permaculture gardens, the answer is simple: beautiful abundance. The skill and chance involved with gardening is a shared, multigenerational experience that creates bonds and opportunities for people to nurture one another. Children are nearly always fascinated with the natural world, and older generations often have wisdom of how to sow seeds for success. As a result, a food forest is a lifelong family culture grounded in creating joy, promoting health, and restoring ecosystems. Florida provides a nearly ideal backdrop for enhancing food security through permaculture gardens and food forests. Our abundant rainfall and warm climate, averaging around 70F year-round, allows for the rapid growth of plants, resulting in a sustainable food source that can be passed from one generation to the next. Given this advantage, food foresters in Florida are posed to be societal leaders in changing and uncertain environments and climates. With a few hand tools and a few hours a week, Floridian food foresters debunk the myth that growing your own food is time-consuming, expensive, labor-intensive, or hard. There isnt a wealth barrier to developing a food forest or food security. Cuttings, seeds, and seedlings can be obtained for very low costif not freeand seeing a space become lush and alive with plants is gratifying for a wholesome lifestyle. Creating a food forest is fun and rewarding! You dont need a degree or special training to create an edible landscape. Gardening is primarily intuitive; its a lifestyle and source of pride and pleasure. In fact, most food foresters simply use gardening as their escapetheir therapy. Anyone can create a Garden of Eden. You can do this! And as you do, you will inspire others. Creating Both Beauty and Bounty In a food forest, trees, shrubs, flowers, and vines can work double duty, creating an attractive, unique yard bursting with edible plants. Crops can perform many of the same functions as ornamental species, offering surprising beauty, form, and fragrance to the landscape. Consider blushing-pink cherry blossoms; ruffled collards with shades of purple; rainbow hues of edible flowers; distinguished stalks of cassava; scented pathways of oregano and rosemary; or spiky, bold pineapple. Even roses are edible yet are mostly noted for only their beauty. In considering the overall design, the following elements apply to both traditional and edible landscapes: Focal points, clustering, and variety. Health and Safety Considerations The food you harvest from your permaculture garden will offer you more culinary variety than youve ever imagined. Just think of the satisfaction of serving a glass of wine to a friend and saying, I made that! When deciding what food to grow, youll want to acknowledge your interest level in the kitchen. Some foods will need preparation, while others wont. If you like being in the kitchen, then youll be in good company! Great chefs will tell you that delicious meals are simple to make when you have fresh ingredients to celebrate in a dish. Thats exactly what you have with a food forest: fresh produce. Learning to cook your crops will be a lifelong journey if you want it to be, and one with many rewards. Wholesome, fresh foods promote health and provide pleasure. 200 Plants for Your Food Forest: Plant Profiles The love of nature, plants, and delicious foods are often a few reasons people create a food forest. But the most significant reason is enjoyment. Watching a food forest mature is so gratifying and fulfilling! That said, this chapter is the fun part for most gardeners. This chapter will help you streamline your food forest. Plants are in alphabetical order by the plants common name to keep the language reader-friendly. The plants included are those vetted by fellow Floridian food foresters throughout the state.
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🗸 Author(s): Amanda Pike
🗸 Title: Transforming Florida Yards: A Regional Food Forest Guide
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🗸 ISBN-10: 1683343298
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