Wayne Weiseman is certified by the Permaculture Institute of
Australia and the Worldwide Permaculture Network as an instructor
of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. He is the director
of Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture (KAAP) in Fountain
City, Wisconsin, the Permaculture Project LLC, and the Permaculture
Design-Build Collaborative LLC, full-service, international
consulting and educational businesses promoting the ideas of
eco-agriculture, renewable energy resources, and eco-construction
methods. For many years he managed a land-based, self-reliant
community project combining organic crop/food production,
ecologically built shelters, renewable energy, and appropriate
technologies.
Daniel Halsey is a certified permaculture designer and teacher for
the Permaculture Research Institute. Certified by the Permaculture
Research Institute, Daniel travels nationally and internationally
teaching permaculture and ecological design to permaculture design
certification students, homesteaders, and landscape designers.
Daniel and his wife Ginny manage self-sustaining forest gardens of
fruiting trees, shrubs and nut crops at SouthWoods Forest Gardens,
a permaculture design, demonstration, and educational site located
on a twenty-five-acre wetland savannah in Prior Lake,
Minnesota.
Bryce Ruddock is certified as an instructor of permaculture
teaching by the Permaculture Institute USA and Cascadia
Permaculture Institute since 2010. He authored the Plant Guilds
e-book, a training manual used in classes by Midwest Permaculture.
His interest in perennial polycultures began in 1980. Since 1984
Bryce and his partner, Debby, have been implementing
permaculture-based polyculture designs at their sixth of an acre
urban home site in southeastern Wisconsin, where they have
transformed an average suburban yard into a thriving food and
medicinals food forest.
"Integrated Forest Gardening is an evolution from Bill Mollison’s
original teachings, built upon by countless designs and a
straightforward process. Both the seasoned and new designer can use
this work to confidently approach a project, weaving land, client,
and vision into an abundant and joyful reality.”--Javan K.
Bernakevitch, Educator and Agroecology Designer
Publishers Weekly- "Weiseman, Halsey, and Ruddock define integrated
forest gardening as the 'integration of all aspects of a land base
into the development of healthy food, medicinal, and utility
landscapes,' giving equal importance to the built environment, the
waste stream, animals, plants, and stones. Drawing on their
extensive design, consultation, and teaching experience, these
three Midwestern permaculturalists discuss plant guilds ('a
beneficial grouping of plants that support one another in all their
many functions') and their design, optimal species integration, and
plant propagation; profile four trees, which are the centerpieces
of polycultures; outline the process of implementing a
forest-garden design; and detail fifteen plant-guild case studies
across hardiness zones 3–9, illustrated with helpful anecdotes.
This passionate and practical manual gives landscapers, landscape
architects, and householders enough in-depth information and
methodology to begin their own experiments with an emerging,
ecologically sensitive alternative to conventional
horticulture.”
"Reading Integrated Forest Gardening was like taking a walk through
a well-orchestrated whole systems design! As a plant enthusiast and
systems thinker this book spoke my language. It is rare to find in
one book such depth of user-friendly detail. It demystifies the
mythical nature of the “Forest Garden’’ and brings its strategies
to easy application. This book is a must for all plant
lovers."--Jude Hobbs, Cascadia Permaculture
"Integrated Forest Gardening fills a major gap in the canon of
permaculture books, giving us, at last, a detailed guide to guild
and polyculture design. No longer is this subject mysterious and
daunting; in this book we now have specific instructions for
designing and installing multi-species plant groups. Chapter 7,
which describes 15 guilds and their plant members, is a golden
nugget worth the price of the book alone. This is an essential book
for all food foresters and ecological designers."--Toby Hemenway,
author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
"This rich feast of nature love by three experienced and working
permaculture designers pushes into the hard task of creating
recombinant ecosystems, a field where few have gone before. The
authors expose the logic and lore of working guilds, the symbiotic
plant assemblies of productive landscapes. Full of design insight
into the needs and opportunities of both plants and the people who
live with them, Integrated Forest Gardening offers a panoply of
example guilds, work procedures, and luscious images to inspire and
guide the perennial food gardener onto a path of ecological
renewal.”--Peter Bane, author of The Permaculture Handbook and
publisher of Permaculture Activist magazine
"For the design work we do at Midwest Permaculture, when we need
experienced advice on planting systems we turn to the three
gentlemen who collaborated on this impressive work. The book is
thorough, accessible, and timely. So wish we had this insightful
compilation when we first started. It’s a gem!"--Bill and Becky
Wilson, Midwest Permaculture
“This is an intimate insight into the world of plant guilds. The
authors have taken the broad land based overview and zoom the
reader into the micro detail of these plant polycultures. Details
of root structure, seeding patterns, and relationships with the
surrounding environment have been carefully observed and are well
laid out in the plant guild lists. This book is an important
contribution to every permaculture designer’s library and will
appeal to all those wishing to grow sustainable polycultures
whether broadscale or in the garden.”--Ben Law, author The Woodland
Way and Roundwood Timber Framing
"We stand at a new threshold. The history of food production has
tended ever more narrowly towards monoculture, whereas a
sustainable future can only be based on polyculture. But we're
desperately short of knowledge on polycultures. While mainstream
research still chases the chimera of fossil-fueled monoculture, a
small band of visionaries is working to develop the knowledge we
need to carry us forward to the future. Just such are the authors
of this book and the wisdom it contains is part of that
movement."--Patrick Whitefield, permaculture teacher and author of
The Earth Care Manual
“Integrated Forest Gardening makes the process of creating complex
agroecosystems more understandable and achievable. It is a fine
guide to designing forest garden and polycultural systems using
Permaculture principles.”--Martin Crawford, author of Creating a
Forest Garden
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