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Edible Forest Gardens Workshop
With Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
October 29-31, 2010
Holyoke & Southampton Massachusetts

Learn edible forest garden design while eating from beautiful food forests. Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis on low-maintenance perennial crops. Design and plant selection help provide fertility, control of weeds and pests, and more.

Come for a hands-on introduction to this fascinating and delicious approach to food production.
- Sample the season's harvest of chestnuts, walnuts, hazels, kiwis, persimmons, pawpaws and more.
- Tour the garden used as the case study in Edible Forest Gardens Volume II with its designer-managers
- Visit Tripple Brook Farm, with over 600 low-maintenance fruits, nuts, bamboos, edible groundcovers, and hundreds of useful species from around the world and our own Northeast bioregion.
- Plant an edible forest garden and learn design process.

Registration: To register contact Jonathan at (413) 303-0740.
Register before August 31 course fee is $150 for the weekend
After September 1 course fee is $200.
Includes Saturday lunch and dinner and Sunday lunch.
A list of local lodging options including camping are available on request.

Eric Toensmeier is the award-winning author of Perennial Vegetables and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens. He has studied permaculture and useful plants for twenty years.
Jonathan Bates, founder of Food Forest Farm and www.permaculturenursery.com, co-designed and co-manages the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden with Eric Toensmeier.

This example of an intensively managed forest garden has inspired hundreds of visitors. Tripple Brook Farm has one of the nation's finest collections of useful plants, with over 1,200 species on site. Founder Steve Breyer has decades of experience growing low-maintenance perennial food crops.