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Episode 134: Have you ever wanted to grow a cornucopia of organic fruit at home? In this episode, Permaculture and Ecological Designer Michael Judd teaches us how to plant a food forest in easy to follow steps. Michael recommends a "patch method" for starting your food forest, shares his recipes for sheet mulching, and talks about how to incorporate existing trees into your new food forest. Michael covers guilds (a selected group of plants that form a small ecosystem to support trees) and talks about the plants he loves to incorporate into food forests including: Comfrey, Strawberry, Lead Plant, Yarrow, Wild Blue Indigo, and many others. Michael shares his favorite Uncommon Fruits and "Edible Landscaping All Stars" which include: Hardy Kiwi, Gooseberry, Juneberry, Goumi, Autumn Olive, Paw Paw, Che Fruit, Elderberry, and Currants.\xa0

You can read more about Michael and his amazing work at EcologiaDesign.com.\xa0\xa0Michael is the author of\xa0Edible\xa0Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist.\xa0

You can taste some of Michael's uncommon fruit at his 1st Annual\xa0Paw Paw Festival on September 17th, 2016 at Long Creek Homestead. The Fest is a celebration of North America's largest (and many say most delicious) fruit.\xa0

To hear more from Michael on my podcasts, click here:\xa0Have Your Yard and Eat It, Too!,\xa0Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation, and\xa0Goumi,\xa0A Beautiful Bush With Benefits.

If you have the Sustainable World Radio App\xa0for\xa0Mac\xa0or\xa0Android,\xa0included in this interview is a short\xa0segment\xa0with\xa0Michael's recommendations for nurseries that sell uncommon fruit.\xa0