Permaculture and Food Forests - Resources. Books, Websites, Names, Videos, etc.

I'll add more resources as I find them - so check back from time to time.

LINK to this PAGE
http://ilovedelawarecounty.blogspot.com/2013/08/permaculture-and-food-forests-resources.html

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​Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.

Forest gardening is a prehistoric method of securing food in tropical areas. In the 1960s, Robert Hart adapted the principles and applied them to temperate climates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening​

​WEBSITES

http://permaculturenews.org/ - Permaculture courses and news worldwide. Lots of amazing resources for beginners to advanced students.

PERMIES - Discusses just about everything. Many user forums with interesting discussions.

http://www.permies.com/

MOTHER EARTH NEWS - Many How-to articles

http://www.motherearthnews.com/

PINTEREST PERMACULTURE BOARD - Many pics and links

http://pinterest.com/universalpat/permaculture/

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​BOOKS

Gaias Garden - permaculture classic

http://www.patternliteracy.com/books/gaias-garden​

Edible Forest Gardens - Dave Jacke

http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_gardening

GOOGLE SEARCHES TO LEARN MORE: Web, images, videos...

Permaculture

Permaculture Garden

Permaculture Food Forest

PERMACULTURE AUTHORITIES - TO GET YOU STARTED

Geoff Lawton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTHjlueqFI

Sepp Holzer   http://pinterest.com/universalpat/sepp-holzer/

Bill Mollison   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison

Dave Jacke   http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_gardening

BACKGROUND

2000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/2000-year-old-food-forest

Ancient European Forest Practices

http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C10/E5-01A-02-01.pdf

Białowieża Forest

"The entire area of northeastern Europe was originally covered by ancient woodland..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest

Battle for Europe's last ancient forest

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/battle-for-europes-last-ancient-forest-1766266.html

Green Capital
"A food forest is similar to a typical woodland ecosystem but instead of the usual greens you would find in a forest, this substitutes in edible trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals; all managed with the permaculture design system and philosophy to create a model of a self-sustaining natural ecosystem with many different species growing in the same plot..."

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/food-forest/

VIDEOS

Greening the Desert - Geoff Lawton - See all 4 parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTHjlueqFI

Permaculture 04 : Overview and Review (Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton) - 
Many related videos next to this one on the youtube page
http://youtu.be/TkfnNwZHVNk


College Students turn Lawn to Permaculture food for college
http://youtu.be/crrOm7jiSPQ

Water Harvesting with Swales

http://youtu.be/RhHu8YFPYvg

NY MFO Permaculture Woods Walk - See pics on this post
http://ilovedelawarecounty.blogspot.com/2013/05/woods-walk-ny-forest-owners-association.html