Transcript Food Forest Establishment Presented by Jack Spirko The Forest as Our Teacher Lesson One – The Forest Floor is a Lake.

Food Forest Establishment
Presented by Jack Spirko
The Forest as Our Teacher
Lesson One – The Forest Floor is a Lake
The Forrest as Our Teacher
Lesson Two – Nature NEVER Monocrops
The Forest as Our Teacher
Lesson Three – Slower Water Creates More Life
The Forrest as Our Teacher
Lesson Four – Fungus are the Teeth of the Forest
The Forest as Our Teacher
Lesson Five – A Forest Grows on a Fallen Forest
The Forest as Our Teacher
Lesson Six – There are Seven Primary Layers in a Forest
Food Forest Establishment with Swales and Chickens
Forests Gardens Can be Small
• One or Two Semi Dwarf Apple (Canopy)
• Two or Three Dwarf Peaches (Sub Canopy)
• Several Black Berry and Blueberry Plants (Shrub)
• 2 Goumi Bushes (Shrub and fixes nitrogen)
• Mix of herbs, flowers, vegetables can be annual/perennial (Herbaceous)
• Beans and Cucumbers (Vining layer + Ground Cover + Rhizosphere)
• Strawberries and sweet potatoes (Ground Cover)
• Horseradish and comfrey (Herbaceous and Rhizosphere)
• This System (Guild)
• Can be installed even is a small yard
• Could even use a small swale and garden pond
• Has all seven layers
• I would establish it along with a mix of buckwheat and cowpea
• Could be easily established with a chicken tractor, over and over
Forests Gardens Can be Small
This one is going to be about 12 feet by 40 feet
Forests Gardens Can be Small
This one is going to be about 8 feet by 24 feet
Forests Gardens Can be Small
This one is going to be tiny a triangle of only about 9’ x9’ x9’
Forests Gardens Can Last 2000 Years in a Desert!
What is the Most Important Thing About Potted Trees?
The Most Important Thing About Potted Trees
The Most Important Thing About Potted Trees
The Most Important Thing About Potted Trees
The Most Important Thing About Potted Trees
Choosing Species for Your Food Forest
Planned Productive Trees for My Design
• All Red Plum
• Arkansas Black Apple
• Eureka Persimmon
• Santa Rosa Plum
• Honey Crisp Apple
• Chojuro Asian Pear
• Ozark Plum
• Jona Red Apple
• 20th Century Asian Pear
• Burbank Plum
• Prairie Fire Crab Apple
• Housi Asian Pear
• Tex. Mission Almond
• Tex. Star Peach
• Paw Paw
• Hall’s Hardy Almond
• Tex. Royal Peach
• Lang Jujube
• Chinquapin
• June Gold Peach
• Li Jujube
• Ayers Pear
• Sam Houston Peach
• Minnie Royal Cherry
• Leconte Pear
• Choctaw Pecan
• Royal Lee Cherry
• Orient Pear
• Tejas Pecan
• Beautiful Day Mulberry
• Gala Apple
• Fuyu Persimmon
• Sweet Lav. Mulberry
• Fuji Apple
Choosing Species for Your Food Forest
What Grows in a Native Kazakhstan Apple Forest?
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Pears
Apricots
Cherries
Plums
Walnuts
Pistachios
Mulberries
Hawthorne
Roses
Raspberries
Barberries
Bilberries
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Elderberries
Silverberries
Gooseberries
Grapes
Currants
Hops
Onions
Cannabis
Sorrels
Umbels
Rhubarbs
More
Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of
www.appleseedpermaculture.com
Choosing Species for Your Food Forest
• Trees from Ethan’s List in my Design
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Pears
Cherries
Plums
Mulberries
• Analogs to Ethan’ s List
• Walnuts = Pecans
• Apricots = Peaches
• This doesn’t even include, herbs, shrubs, etc.
Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of
www.appleseedpermaculture.com
Choosing Species for Your Food Forest
• Trees In My Design Not on Ethan’s List
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Paw Paw
Jujube
Chinquapin
Persimmon
Pears
• The Lessons Here
• I didn’t even consider Ethan’s List
• I still ended up with many of the plants on his list
• You really can’t screw this up
• In the end grow what you like
Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of
www.appleseedpermaculture.com
Building Soil Below The Ground
• Some Facts About Root And Soil Biomass
• Fungi can account for as much as 52-54% of total forest biomass
• Trees generally have root spread from ½ to 5 times that of their canopy
• Most trees have 90% or more of their feeding roots in 18–24 inches of
the soil
• Juniper trees in New Mexico had some deep roots to 200 feet of depth
• At the end of its first year’s growth, an an apple tree can produce as
many as 17 million root hairs with a total length of well over a mile
• Root biomass is generally at least equal to above ground bio mass for
most plants and trees
Credit for this data to http://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdf
Building Soil Below The Ground
• Some Facts About Root And Soil Biomass
• Fungi can account for as much as 52-54% of total forest biomass
• Trees generally have root spread from ½ to 5 times that of their canopy
• Most trees have 90% or more of their feeding roots in 18–24 inches of
the soil
• Juniper trees in New Mexico had some deep roots to 200 feet of depth
• At the end of its first year’s growth, an an apple tree can produce as
many as 17 million root hairs with a total length of well over a mile
• Root biomass is generally at least equal to above ground bio mass for
most plants and trees
Credit for this data to http://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdf