Forest Garden Course

The Forest Garden Course is coming to the Massachusetts!

It's gardening *like* the forest, in layers, not gardening *in* the forest, as one might expect. Trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers (annuals and perennials), many yields in one space!

Memorial Day Weekend 2010, we will be learning and implementing a forest garden at the Dunphy School in Williamsburg. The course helps benefit the garden installation for the school!

This year only, the course will focus on Forest Gardens for upper elementary aged students! Learn about designing, implementing, and maintaining forest gardens in a school environment, working with teachers and parents.

Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional forest of food.

Participants learn how to design, establish, and maintain such Edible Forest Gardens of Eden.

Visit the course website:
www.mosaicfarm.com/forestgardencourse.html