This presentation will illustrate the growth habit, preferred habitat, care required, food value, other uses and landscape appeal of over 25 native perennial plants you can include in your edible landscape. The plants range from small and tall trees to bushes, groundcovers and even vines. If you want to create an edible hedge, an edible bed, a foundation planting or a forest garden, you will discover there are attractive native food plants to fill every niche.
Dani Baker is a retired clinical psychologist and a self-taught gardener and photographer who learned her craft by immersing herself in reading, poring over nursery catalogs, attending workshops on permaculture and gardening, and enthusiastic trial-and-error experimentation. Her Enchanted Edible Forest garden is located at Cross Island Farms on Wellesley Island in the St. Lawrence River between New York and Canada. There, she and her partner, David Belding, grow certified organic produce and raise grass-fed beef and goats. Dani conducts workshops and tours in her edible forest garden as well as giving presentations at organic farming conferences and other venues. She recently published a book, The Home-scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape, available for sale at Amazon and other online platforms. She takes particular pleasure in inspiring others to try their hand at incorporating permaculture principles in their edible gardens.
Recorded on January 14, 2023
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