Food Forest Book

FOREST GARDENING/FOOD FORESTS GORGEOUS FRUIT ALL YEAR

WORKING FROM NATURE WITH JADE WOODHOUSE

The top of the slope at the Eudlo property, an abundant Food Forest

This book as with my learning was done in nature. I wrote this book sitting on my wooden benches in the food forests of our gardens. One bench my winter resting and relaxing spot, facing north, full low winter sun and warmth, with a heavy dense planting behind as a heat bank. The other bench my cooling rest, my energizer and enlivening sit located in Spring, Summer shade with lush cooling ground cover and open, light weight understorey shrubs, canes and grasses circulating breezes and energy flows. All fruit can be plucked an arms length away. My forests are my food and my sanctuary, and they are my teacher. Ever changing from bare and barren to, vegetative fertile and productive.

This book like my others has come about from my education courses and the wanting to help people to learn how to create a sustainable self-reliant lifestyle for them, as we have.

A subtropical Food Forest Jade & Paul created

The book is a good solid start for a beginner or a basic easy to follow start for the already in tuned Permaculture Student or interested Biodynamic hobby gardener. It has been written simply for ease of understanding, yet it covers the important need to know and consider issues. I offer you implemented successful ideas that Paul and I have used. We are sustainable gardeners and we strive to demonstrate educate and enforce in the learner the need for small-scale organic sustainable gardening methods for home food production. This is the gardening method of the future and for a future.

I offer our experience, our journey and my education in an affordable, user-friendly book as an aid to your own doing and self-discovery. The book is written in the Sub-tropics yet our gardens; the forests are micro-climated to grow temperate, sub-tropical and tropical foods. I have not written “how to GROW” a specific fruit tree, ie, Paw Paw as I do not believe this is possible (as each garden is specific to the plants individual requirements) nor would I want to write a generalization of what each specific fruit tree may require, as this would inhibit your own study and observation. You to must learn on your journey and this is your reconnecting with nature and the universe.

I am still learning as you are.

My book like our gardens are to inspirer you and to motivate you. The gardens and the book is proof that the systems and methods are working.

The Food Forest Jade & Paul created on the Sunshine Coast

Book suitability:

beginners to interested students of sustainable gardening practices.
from urban house block to acreage.
for future planning or an aid to finding the ideal piece of land to buy.
starting from scratch or retrofitting/rescuing a failing orchard.
for an understanding and implementation of organic sustainable gardening methods and management.
if you like a straight to the point, short, easy to read and understand education tool. A book full of ideas and sensible gardening methods.

Forest Gardening Food Forest Book list of contents

Jade & Paul's Food Forest design using shallow swales

Introduction, Land Selection criteria, Placement of the food forest, Maps (designs), Soil, Mulches, Support planting, How a forest works, Pest management, Nutrients, Placement of trees, Planting trees, Tree selection, Species reference, Basic Guidelines for any method, Swales (introduction), Starting out ideal method, Making a food forest all at once method, Joining fruit trees to form a forest, Maintenance, Converting a traditional orchard, Planting quantity example, Species list for sub-tropical/tropical, Conclusion, Suggested reading.

Double sided 51 A4 pages, includes some photos of Simply Natural Organic Farm Food Forests All black and White printed.

Hope its what you “feel “ you're after. We all need to plant the seeds now of our tomorrows trees. Plant in an environmentally friendly way and with functional plantings. We must use easy low maintenance methods that are low resource using and self maintaining. Growing towards a future of sustainability.

Hint!!!! Always plant your support plants first.
Don’t plant a fruit tree, plant a forest. You can do it in pots or in an urban yard, a small block or acreage. Plant your future today.
Grow for clean air, pure water and biological soil.
Love jade Woodhouse

Food Forest Book “Fruit” Back!!!!
I brought this book from Jade at a Fair, as I was unable to attend her courses, due to the long distance of travel. I highly recommend it as a tool for successful low maintenance, easy to implement solutions to a problem orchard. The book has change my opinion to fruit growing and tree / soil care.
Stephen Prior Mount Tamborine Nov 2004

Jades Fruit Growing book has opened my eyes up to following nature and making gardening easier. Support planting first and growing plants for sustainability and low energy resources, with low maintance is the way, the successful way for us to grow fruit on our 6 acres. Thanks for an easy to read and then do book. Thanks for rescuing the fruit tress and us.
Kristen Cootes Cooroy.

Food Forest Book cost $22 plus $5.00 postage package, and handling.
Self Published by Jade Woodhouse March 2003
51 pages, A4, Double sided, black and white, spiral bound, soft cover.

Jade Woodhouses self-published books are only available from her.

ORDERS Available by post mail, phone or email
Payment must accompany order.
Cheque or Money order payable to Jade Woodhouse. Thankyou.

Ordering two or more books at any one time please email or phone for the postage and handling cost. thankyou

Back to Books