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Description: Are you tired of planting, weeding, watering, spraying and cultivating annual vegetables year after year? It's time to move on to a resilient perennial edible planting that provides an abundance of food and reduces your labor going forward. This power point will define a forest garden, elucidate several of its ecological concepts, offer a step by step process to create your own edible landscape at any scale, and offer suggestions of some native plants you may want to include.

Bio: Dani Baker is a self-taught organic farmer and edible forest gardener who began planning and planting the “Enchanted Edible Forest," a permaculture-inspired acre of over 300 different perennial food-producing plants in 2013. In May of 2022 her book, "The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape" was published by Chelsea Green. Dani loves to inspire other gardeners to landscape their plots, large or small, with perennial food plants incorporating the permaculture principles that reduce their labor going forward while increasing the abundance of their harvest year after year.