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| Edible Forest Garden Syllabus Instructors: Lisa DePiano and Jonathan Bates CLASS PATTERN The first two days of class will be spent learning the fundamentals of Forest Gardening and the design process. The second part will be implementing a design at Yestermorrow and the final two days the class will design their own patch of a forest garden. Day 1 Class introductions and Goals Articulation Edible Forest Garden and Permaculture What is Edible Forest Gardening- Human and Ecosystem Functions Edible Forest Gardening Principles Card Game Understanding Forest Ecology activity, succession and layering Introduction to the Design Process- Goals, Observation, Site Analysis, Assessment, Design, Revise Observation- Active listening and outside observation activity Learn to read the landscape using the Yestermorrow site, what “weeds” tell us *Hands on soil test Soils Food Web Talk Holyoke Edible Forest Garden Slide Show DINNER Movie the Global Gardner w/ Bill Mollison Day 2 Develop personal niche analysis Social Polyculture design Site Analysis and Site Assessment what, so what, now what -Scale of Permanence Holyoke Edible Forest Garden Design Process Mycorrhizal fungi plant connections talk *Hands on activity inoculating mushrooms logs and woodchips Montview Neighborhood Farm Presentation Cooking with perennial vegetables and other food from the forest garden Edible Forest Garden DINNER After Dinner Roundtable discussion: Edible Forest Gardens as tool for Social Justice Day 3 Yestermorrow Apple tree guild design presentation Going from site analysis summery to design -Design Concept, Schematic Design, Detailed Design *Hands on site preparation *Hands on planting Field Trip to local nursery Forest hike DINNER After Dinner Presentation from local Project TBA Day 4 Introduce Yestermorrow design project create/”design” design teams How to interview “clients” Interview Yestermorrow team Gleaning goals from interviews Design teams develop goals, site analysis, assessment and summary Design time Day 5 Design time Design Presentations Design critiques with local designers Closing circle Evaluations
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