Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd

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.

For nearly two decades, Michael Judd has focused on integrating permaculture and ecological design to agro-ecological and whole-system designs throughout the Americas. In both tropical and temperate agricultural regions, his efforts improve local food security and community health. Ecologia Edible & Ecological Landscape Design, Project Bona Fide, an worldwide organization promoting agro-ecology research, and SilvoCulture, a Maryland-based NGO that is assisting in the planting of one million nut trees in the Mid-Atlantic region, are all founded by him. He's also the author of For the Love of PawPaws and Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist. Michael and his family live on a permaculture homestead outside Frederick, Maryland, hidden in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Judds have a 25-acre homestead with varied woodlands, food forests, gardens, and a nursery for experimentation and instruction.