Growing Fruit at Home – Starting a Food Forest
Imagine a yard where trees are dripping with fresh fruits, shrubs are bejeweled with delicious berries, gourmet mushrooms sprout in the shade, hardy kiwis … Read More
Fruit Tree Care
Fruit trees that have been potted or transplanted often need continued care and support in balancing their form, especially for good fruit production. Fortunately, … Read More
Most Recent Podcasts
View the archives of various podcast speaking with Michael Judd. Fruitful Landscapes: the start of a food forest, with Michael Judd Read the transcript … Read More
Hugelkultur – Mounds of Fertility
Hugel – What?? “Hugelkultur” roughly translates from German to mean “mound culture.” It’s an ancient practice of creating raised garden beds by covering wood … Read More
Consulting
Whether it is a first time garden or diversification of an already productive landscape our consultations are tailored to your goals and site potentials. … Read More
Volt Edible Courtyard
Top Chef competition finalist Bryan Voltaggio commissioned author Michael Judd, of Ecologia Design, to prepare an edible landscape for Volt, his restaurant in Frederick, … Read More
Agroforestry
The culture of working with trees has a myriad of relationships and benefits key to our times. The practice of “agroforestry” has been in … Read More
Why Nuts?
Tree crops have proven to provide resources needed for survival in regions where annual agriculture has failed. We see tree crops as a stable … Read More
Talks
Talks by Michael Judd Principle designer/founder of Ecologia, Edible & Ecological Landscapes, author of Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist and For the Love … Read More
Natural Structures
Adventures in Strawbale Building The following is a chronicle of our adventures in building a round wood timber frame circular strawbale home on our … Read More