U.S. Botanic Garden Online Lecture: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist
Have you ever wondered how to have your yard and eat it too? Join Michael for an online lecture exploring form, function, and production in your yard. He will share tips for making your yard more fruitful as he highlights edible landscapes designed and created in the D.C. Metro area.
Paw Paw Webinar recording from September 2020 sponsored by the University of Maryland Extension
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Join celebrated garden designer, author and educator Michael Judd in exploring essential edible landscaping and permaculture concepts in this unique webinar series.
In this series Judd will lead a virtual tour through edible landscapes while unearthing the abc’s of how to build herb spirals, create raised beds that harvest water, grow gourmet mushrooms, simplify food forest basics, construct earthen ovens and much much more.
Michael’s webinars are filled with practical examples, picture rich, easy to follow, fun, informative and fruitful! Webinars are easy to sign up for, watch and interact with much like a live video presentation. You can opt for a single webinar or sign up for the series for more in-depth learning.
The presentation time for each webinar is close to 1 hour long with optional :15 Q&A
To schedule for groups, institutes or networks please email info@ecologiadesign.com for pricing.
Michael’s infectious enthusiasm for Edible Landscape combined with his creativity in applying his deep knowledge of the subject made him a very popular presenter for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey. It made us all want to run outside and start growing on our properties!
~Nagisa Manabe Executive Director of NOFA-NJ.
Session 1: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist Webinar
With the help of more than 40 beautiful color slides and illustrations, permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes you on a step-by-step process to transform a sea of grass into a flourishing edible landscape that pleases the eye as well as the taste buds. With personality and humor, he translates the complexities of permaculture design into simple self-build projects, providing details on the evolving design process, material identification, and costs.
This foundational presentation is for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too.
Topics Covered:
- Herb Spirals
- Raised-Bed Gardens
- Food Forests
- Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation
- Permaculture Plants & Uncommon Fruits
- Building Earthen Ovens
Imagine a yard where trees are dripping with fresh fruits, shrubs are bejeweled with delicious berries, gourmet mushrooms sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwis fruit over an arbor. Join author and edible landscape designer Michael Judd in an exploration of combining form, function and production in your landscape.
Session 2: Outdoor Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation Webinar
An in-depth exploration to the tasty world of growing mushrooms in the landscape.
Join edible and ecological landscape designer Michael Judd in a very popular presentation on growing delicious and nutritious culinary and medicinal mushrooms in your own garden or landscape. The presentation will cover how to inoculate logs for shiitake and oyster mushrooms, and grow wine cap mushrooms on wood chips, while improving your garden ecology.
The class will also cover the basics of mushroom science and how fungi functions in nature and how to work with fungi to help restore our local ecologies.
*It is fun, easy and productive to grow mushrooms at home. Come join us to find out how..
To see more details on growing mushrooms see This Page!
Session 3: Water Harvesting & Soil Building: Swales, Hügelkultur Beds, Rain Gardens Webinar
Permaculture and edible landscape designer Michael Judd will provide a clear and simplified approach to water harvesting in this presentation, which will be a combination of theory and hands-on practice.
Water harvesting involves a variety of strategies to manage and enhance the water resources on your land–leading to soil building and healthier plants. Understanding and implementing just a few simple water harvesting techniques such as swales on contour, hugelkultur beds, and rain gardens can improve the way water moves through your landscape and how effectively your plants are able to use it.
Learn which designs best fit your land, how they are created, and how to make them look good. Whether you have a little patch of backyard or a huge property to work with, the principles you learn in this class will help make your land more diverse, productive, and ecologically friendly than ever before.
To see more details on subjects covered see the links below:
Session 4: Food Forests & Uncommon Fruits Webinar
A food forest (or “edible forest garden”) is a low-maintenance gardening technique that mimics a woodland ecosystem but substitutes woodland species with edible trees, shrubs, perennial vegetables, herbs, vines, and annuals. Designed correctly, a food forest is sustainable, resilient, builds healthy soil, sequesters carbon, stores rainwater, and provides habitat for wildlife–all while producing a cornucopia of food for you and your family!
Edible and ecological landscape designer Michael Judd brings the complexity of creating a food forest into bite sized patches. Starting with simple ground prep in an area as small as 10×10 feet, planting a fruit tree with supportive permaculture plants, your food forest adventures can begin!
Uncommon Fruits & Permaculture Plants
Uncommonly delicious, uncommonly beautiful, uncommonly easy to grow… yes, yes, yes. There is a world of fruit trees and bushes that fit perfectly in the home landscape and require very little of you other than picking abundant harvests. Combining your fruits with permaculture companion plants furthers their resilience and reduces your inputs (work!).
Cultivar selection and sourcing options covered.
The following fruits are just a sampling of the cornucopia that awaits to root in your landscape, titillate the senses and fill the fruit bowl.
- Paw paws
- Currants
- Goumi
- Aronia Berry
- Elderberry
- Juneberry
- Hardy Kiwi
- Jujube
- Persimmon
- Flying Dragon Citrus
- Medlar
- Bush cherry
- Mulberry
Permaculture Plants
- Comfreys
- Lead plant
- Mints
- Nettle
- Willows
- Bamboo
- Walking onions
- Fuki
To see more details on subjects covered see the links below:
Session 5: Creating Herb Spirals Webinar
Benefits
There are many benefits to planting an herb spiral raised bed garden:
- Fantastic year-round edible landscape architecture
- Creates micro-climates for your favorite herbs and veggies
- Easy and fun to build
- Space and water saver
- High productivity in a small space
- Can fit anywhere, even on patios
The Ultimate Raised Bed!
The garden spiral is like a snail shell, with stone spiraling upward to create multiple micro-climates and a cornucopia of flavors on a small footprint. Spirals can come in any size to fit any space, from an urban courtyard to an entire yard. You don’t even need a patch of ground, as they can be built on top of patios, pavement, and rooftops. You can spiral over an old stump or on top of poor soil. By building up vertically, you create more growing space, make watering easy, and lessen the need to bend over while harvesting. To boot, spirals add instant architecture and year-round beauty to your landscape: the perfect garden focal point.
One of the beauties of an herb spiral is that you are creating multiple microclimates in a small space. The combination of stones, shape, and vertical structure offers a variety of planting niches for a diversity of plants. The stones also serve as a thermal mass, minimizing temperature swings and extending the growing seasons. Whatever you grow in your spiral, it will pump out a great harvest for the small space it occupies. I’ve grown monstrous cucumbers in my large garden spiral, with one plant producing over 30 prize-size fruits. The spiral is a food-producing superstar!
To see more details on herb spirals see This Page!
For the Love of Paw Paws Online Webinar
The pawpaw, a close relative of the tropical custard apple, grows throughout much of North America yet culturally and horticulturally we know very little about it.
Join fruit explorer and edible landscape designer Michael Judd as he unearths the many ways to enjoy North America’s largest native fruit – From Seed to Table.
Topics covered include seed or tree selection, siting, planting, care, harvest, processing, recipes.. and much more. For newbies to aficionados.
Presentation is 1 hour with an optional Q&A listening following.
Posted In: Edible and Ecological Landscape Design