By: Becky Elder
Talk with a tree. Have tea with a shrub. Listen to a flower… Plants can help people maintain a spiritual relationship with the planet. Let the work of living mulch, worms and the soil organisms satisfy a gardener’s heart.
Care for the earth, care for people and share the abundance are the base ethics of permaculture for living sustainably on the Earth and sharing the wealth of the organic. Forest gardening holds that philosophy connecting back into nature. Like French-intensive gardening, a forest garden is packed with food and function to make small produce big and works to increase the output of the land while improving the land’s health. These gardens can be beautiful and walk in tune with meditation gardens, children’s gardens and xeriscapes.
Read the Entire Story on Page 9, That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010, here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
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