Growing Community in Southwest Michigan
Documentation of the growth habits / forms of some of the woody perennials at my (PJ’s) forest garden, with a snowy backdrop and a 6-foot “yardstick” to show scale, with notes about planting years. I have dry, sandy soil and a lot of these things didn’t get much care or watering—plus many have been...
Visit two different forest gardens on two very different sites in Southwest MI—throughout an entire growing season! Forest Gardens or “Food Forests” are a way of growing food by imitating nature: plants on many layers, cooperating rather than competing. It doesn’t mean growing food in a dark forest—more like a semi-open woodland featuring many...
Permablitz this Sunday (4/26) to tour and move woodchips around PJ’s 4-acre forest garden in Lawton, followed by a potluck and then the final meeting of the Book Study Group to wrap up The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane.
In coordination with Local Lawton (our Transition Town), please join us at Lewis Park—1/2 mile south of downtown Lawton on M-40, next Sunday at 3pm for a discussion of solar dehydrators, solar ovens, and an informal potluck meal. Bring whatever you like, it doesn’t have to be cooked by the sun!. We’ll talk about...
Martin Crawford is a pioneer in temperate-climate forest gardening, taking up the work of Robert Hart but applying it at a larger scale, with better plant spacing and arrangement, an academic fastidiousness, and much larger number of species. He has been publishing the excellent Agroforestry News from the UK since 1992, and more recently...
