The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer – From...

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Christina Chung

The Layered Edible Garden

A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer – From Ground Covers...

Christina Chung

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Cool Springs Press
23 January 2024

Sustainable agriculture; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Organic gardening

In The Layered Edible Garden, gardeners learn how to take their cues from nature and create an edible garden space filled with layers of food-producing plants, from trees and shrubs to perennials and ground covers.

Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases, and say hello to an interplanted polyculture paradise, filled with layers of edible plants that outcompete weeds, share resources, and grow beautifully together. In The Layered Edible Garden, author and food gardening pro Christina Chung of @fluent.garden introduces a modern approach to home food gardening that follows nature's lead by growing plants in mixed communities, instead of in agriculture-centric monocultures. By intentionally including edible plants from 8 different layers (trees, sub-canopy trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, ground covers, and edible roots) in your home garden, you'll be building a mini ""food forest"" that will produce food for years to come and require less work and fewer resources.

With the insight found in The Layered Edible Garden, you'll: Learn how to transform your home's landscape into an edible plant community

Meet dozens of plants in each of the 8 layers Discover the many perks of growing perennial food crops that return to the garden year after year

Find design and planting advice to make your layered edible garden as attractive as it is productive Be introduced to intensive planting strategies to organize plant layers in a functional and beautiful way

Acquire info on how to establish new planting areas and how to utilize the existing garden features already present

Whether you have sun or shade, a large growing space or a small one, planting many layers of food plants together results in a diverse, low-maintenance edible garden, filled with plants that help support each other. The future of growing food is multi-layered.

By: Christina Chung
Imprint: Cool Springs Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 794g
ISBN: 9780760385593
ISBN 10: 0760385599
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Why a Vertically Layered Garden Building a Layered Edible Garden Planting Composition The Layers Maintenance Resources About the Author Photo Credits Index

Christina Chung of @fluent.garden creates educational content to make gardening accessible for a wide range of online audiences. After completing the Horticulture Technician Foundation program through The UBC Botanical Garden's Horticulture Training Program, Chris served as the program's coordinator for two years. Working as an educator, she created and taught small-scale urban food production courses. Chris's current passion for growing perennial edible plants has led her to investigate the viability of introducing thoughtfully designed food forests or ""layered"" plantings into residential-scale gardens in Metro Vancouver, Canada. She completed further training through Gaia College's Organic Horticulture Specialist Program.

Reviews for The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer – From Ground Covers to Trees and Everything in Between

""Thanks to its enthusiastic, engaging narrator and vibrant color photographs, this informative book will appeal to vegetable gardeners who want to explore new methods and unexpected choices in their edible gardens."" * Library Journal * ""The Layered Edible Garden by Christina Chung is a complete guide to turning an ordinary home yard containing perhaps a tree or two and some foundation plantings into a full-fledged edible plant community. What does a layered edible garden look like? A lovely cottage garden, a meadow, a hedgerow, a beautiful potage, a woodland,a collection of pots or any or all of the above. The Layered Edible Garden contains many beautiful illustrations of these ideas."" * Connecticut Horticultural Society *