Imagine transforming your garden, allotment, even your patio, into a perennial food garden, with multilayers of edibles, beautiful and wildlife habitat!
Garden designer, author and forest gardener, Pippa Chapman, chats to Permaculture magazine’s Maddy Harland, exploring how she starts designing and implementing perennial food gardens.
Observation is key to all designing, and a base map is also vital in creating the best design for your space.
Pippa shares her top tips for getting started, including how to plan your plot and how to site important design elements.
Pippa also explains how to gradually transform an established garden into your dream garden, while maintaining the garden’s wildlife ecosystem.
The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden
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The Permaculture Magazine team have been publishing books and magazines since 1992.
Their YouTube channel www.youtube.com/PermacultureMagazine shares a range of videos from no dig organic gardening and food forests, to regenerative farming and keeping bees.