Saturday Feb 23, 2008
The Perennial Edible Landscaping Intensive will be a one-day (6 hrs) course. This workshop will cover the essentials of creating edible landscaping in the central Texas climate, enabling you to maximize the productive potential of your landscape through using ecological design principles and your own creativity.
Instructor Kirby Fry has more than a decade of experience in ecological design as founder/director of the Cross Timers Permaculture Institute in Glen Rose Texas, his own consultation service Southern Exposure Permaculture & has studied with Bill Mollison (co-founder of the Permaculture movement). Kirby will present the gardens on his homestead as a case study. There will also be opportunity for some hands on experience as we begin planting a perennial food-scape at the farm.
The workshop will cover:- site analysis
- soil preparation/earthworks (fertilization, soil amendments, water harvesting berms)
- plant selection
- Guild design (mutualistic plant combination)
- mapping
- installation
Some of the plants provided to workshop participants will be:
- Sour Cherry
- Blackberry
- Autumn Olive (a berry bearing bush)
- champanel grapes
Schedule
9:00 Coffee/tea & snacks
9:30-4:00 class time
A farm fresh lunch will be provided mid-day.
Registration
$60 early bird rate
$75 after Feb 1st
To register please mail in or drop off checks at:
World Hunger Relief
356 Spring Lake Road
Waco, TX 76705
For further examples of perennial edible landscapes see:
Dave Jacke is America's premier temperate climate edible garden designer & author.
An example of a food forest in a more analogous climate to our own.
Video on Sepp Holzer's farm that exquisitely explains the plant guild concept.