Comments on: Edible Forest Gardening Workshop

By: Nika

Nika — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:15 +0000

Kathleen,

Sorry to give the scare! I am glad it brought you to the blog tho The book sounds amazing and I will see if I can get ahold of it! Thanks for the heads up.

By: Kathleen Cain

Kathleen Cain — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:21:25 +0000

Hi, Nika & Jonathan ~ THANKS for answering on the cottonwood/dogwood fruit question. Whew! Thought I had really missed something there–you know how wonderfully surprising the arboreal world is on a daily basis, even when you think you know it well!

On a different note, may I recomend a FABULOUS book called Wildwood/A Journey Through Trees by the late British naturalist Roger Deakin. (Free Press. 2007). It’s a memoir of people, places, and trees, beginning with elementary school, roaming through a wooded preserve, flinging down square-foot frames to count all the species within. He ambles through England, seeking out trees, people (as well as the Green Man), and their shared wisdom. The journey extends internationally: the Pyrenees, the Bieszczady Woods (trying saying that fast ONCE!)…the prose is plummy, and all the Latin names are correct. Ah, the mind of science given through the heart of a poet…a page-turner for wood-loving folk! Kathleen Cain

By: Nika

Nika — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:59:02 +0000

Kathleen, Ok, I have the answer - not cottonwood at all! dogwood tree fruits (Cornus kousa)

By: Nika

Nika — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:22:28 +0000

Jonathan: hey thnx for stopping by! Also, many thnx re: species name on the dogwood fruit.

I have changed the link as well!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:58 +0000

Nika,
Wow! Great blog! Thanks again for all your help at the workshop. As for the picture you emailed me, labeled cottonwood fruit. It is actually a Kousa Dogwood fruit, Cornus kousa. Also, if you could change my nursery link to permaculturenursery.com Be well! Thanks!

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By: Nika

Nika — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:58:37 +0000

Katrien,

Yes, I too mostly grow the annuals but am starting LOADS of paw paws which will be the planted out all over our land.

I just had a brain storm about this really low spot on our land that would be PERFECT for mushroom growing (morels and king stropharia and other loose litter species)

So many possibilities!

By: Katrien

Katrien — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:03 +0000

I am so jealous. Their book, Edible Forest Gardens, is one of my all-time favorites: I love the theory, the design, the practical advice, the nitty-gritty and the world-wide aspects of it… I am definitely going to check out their workshops. My (first) garden this year was almost exclusively annual vegetables, but we have a lot of room still for perennial forest crops.
Thanks for this mini-workshop!
Katrien
PS, a friend gave us some cotton wood berries and they are so good!

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:03:12 +0000

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By: Nika

Nika — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:55 +0000

Kathleen,

I am certainly no expert on cottonwoods! I have googled a bit and find this image looks close but not right on.

http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/4153/deltawest/forestchar/ElmAshCotton001.asp

I will check in with Eric and see what more he can tell me