Edible Forest Gardens Vol. I

Dave Jacke; with Eric Toensmeier

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface

Introduction: An Invitation to Adventure
What Is an Edible Forest Garden?
Gardening LIKE the Forest vs. Gardening IN the Forest
Where Can You Grow a Forest Garden?
The Garden of Eden: It Sounds Great, But Is It Practical?
An Invitation to Adventure

Part One: Context and Vision

1: The Forest and the Trees
The Primal Forest: A Remembrance
Gardening the Forest
Forest Remnants

• Feature Article 1: Natives and Exotics: Definitions and Questions

Suburban Ecology
Gardening in the Industrial Image
Lessons Learned

• Box 1-1: Shifting the Burden to the Intervenor

2: Visions of Paradise
Study of the Household: Ecology Defined
Tales of Mimicry
Advantages of Forest Mimicry
The Limitations of Forest Mimics
Spanning the Gamut: Images of Forest Gardens
Goals of Forest Gardening
Revision—the Garden of Eden?

• Box 2-1: The Principle of Functional Interconnection

Case Study 1: Charlie’s Garden

Part Two: Ecology: Form and Function in the Forest Garden

3: The Five Elements of Forest Architecture
Vegetation Layers

• Feature Article 2: With All These Layers, What Do I Grow in the Shade?

Soil Horizons
Density
Patterning
Diversity
Summary

• Box 3-1: The Principle of Relative Location

Case Study 2: Robert’s Garden

4: Social Structure: Niches, Relationships and Communities
Species, Species Niches, and Species Relationships
Multi-Species Interactions: Frameworks of Social Structure

• Feature Article 3: Natives and Exotics, Opportunists and Invasives

Social Structure Design: Strategies and Anchors
Chapter Summary

• Box 4-1: Niche Analysis: Everybody Does It
• Box 4-2: The Principle of Multiple Functions
• Box 4-3: The Principle of Stress and Harmony
• Box 4-4: The Competitive Exclusion Principle
• Box 4-5: The Cropping Principle
• Box 4-6: The Principle of Redundancy
• Box 4-7: The Polyculture Partitioning Principle
• Box 4-8: Ecological Analogs

5: Making A Living In The Dark: Structures of the Underground Economy
The Anatomy of Self-Renewing Fertility

• Feature Article 4: Parent Materials: The Soil’s Nutritional Constitution

Plant Roots: Engines of the Underground Economy
The Soil Food Web
Summary: Dabbling In The Underground Economy

• Box 5-1: The Concept of Limiting Factors
• Box 5-2: Specific Replant Disease

6: Succession: Four Perspectives on Vegetation Dynamics
Classical Linear Succession and Climax
Progressive Succession to Shifting Mosaic Steady State
Patch Dynamics: Out of Line and Out of Balance
A “Unified Oldfield Theory”: Successional Causes

• Feature Article 5: “Invasive” Plants and the Unified Oldfield Theory

Succession Design: Using the Four Models
Summary: The Simultaneity of the Four Models

• Box 6-1: The Principle of Allocation
• Box 6-2: The Law of Vegetation Dynamics
• Box 6-3: The Law of Dynamic Tolerance

Case Study 3: E.F. Schumacher Forest Garden

Conclusion: Elements, Dynamics, and Desired Conditions

Appendices
Appendix 1: Forest Gardening’s “Top 100” Species
Appendix 2: Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
Appendix 3: Publications and Organizations

Bibliography
Glossary
General Index