Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist: How to Have Your Yard and Eat It Too - Softcover

Judd, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615873790 ISBN 13: 9780615873794

Publisher: Ecologia, 2013

Synopsis

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a how-to manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too. With the help of more than 200 beautiful color photos and drawings, permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes the reader on a step-by-step process to transform a sea of grass into a flourishing edible landscape that pleases the eye as well as the taste buds. With personality and humor, he translates the complexities of permaculture design into simple self-build projects, providing full details on the evolving design process, material identification, and costs. Chapters cover:

• Herb Spirals
• Food Forests
• Raised-Bed Gardens
• Earthen Ovens
• Uncommon Fruits
• Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation, and more . . .

The book’s colorful pages are filled with practical designs that Judd has created and built over years of workshops, homesteading, and running an edible landscaping business. Though geared toward suburban gardeners starting from scratch, the book's designs can be easily grafted to the micro-habits of the urban landscape, scaled up to the acreage of homesteads, or adapted to already flourishing landscapes. Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a tool to spark and inform the imagination of anyone with a desire to turn their landscape into a luscious and productive edible Eden.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole-system designs throughout the Americas for nearly two decades, focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design. His projects increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. He is the founder of Ecologia Edible & Ecological Landscape Design and Project Bona Fide, an international nonprofit supporting agro-ecology research. He is the author of For the Love of Paw Paws and Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist, a popular how-to manual on creating productive and beautiful landscapes.

Michael and his family live in Frederick, Maryland, at Long Creek Homestead. The Judd’s Long Creek Homestead is 25 acres of mixed woodland, food forests, gardens, and nursery designed for experimentation and education. To learn more please visit www.ecologiadesign.com. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Ecologia
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615873790
• ISBN 13: 9780615873794
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144