Home-Scale Forest Garden

FruitEdible Landscaping
Written By Steven Biggs

Making an Edible Landscape with a Forest Garden

Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden, talks about planning, planting, and caring for a forest garden.

We chat with author and market gardener Dani Baker about forest gardening.

Baker has created a forest garden on her USDA Zone 4 farm. She shares her tips for making a forest garden, whether it’s an acre or just a few square feet.

We talk about:

  • Permaculture principles

  • Creating microclimates

  • Grouping plants in layers

  • Understanding your space

  • Matching plants to conditions

  • What you can do at this time of year to get started

Her new book is The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape.

Scenes from Dani Baker’s Forest Garden

 
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Steven Biggs

Recognized by Garden Making Magazine as one of the "green gang" of Canadians making a difference in horticulture, Steven Biggs is a horticulturist, former college instructor, and award-winning broadcaster and author. His passion is helping home gardeners grow food in creative and attractive ways.


He’s the author of eight gardening books, including the Canadian bestseller No Guff Vegetable Gardening. His articles have appeared in Canada’s Local Gardener, Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Country Guide, Edible Toronto, and other magazines.


Along with over 30 years working in the horticultural sector and a horticultural-science major at the University of Guelph, Steven’s experience includes hands-on projects in his own garden including wicking beds, driveway strawbale gardens, and a rooftop tomato plantation—to the ongoing amusement of neighbours.


When not in the garden, you might catch him recording his award-winning Food Garden Life podcast or canoeing in Algonquin Park.

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