Design a Low Effort Food Garden that ACTUALLY Feeds You (Complete Guide)
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Want to grow more food with less effort? A garden design that works with nature and your lifestyle is key. In this video, I share the practical design methods and frameworks I’ve used to grow 90% of our fruit and vegetables, while working full-time. You’ll learn how to design a Functional Food Garden based on permaculture principles, suitable for a backyard garden, a homestead or a community garden.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro: How I Grow 90% of Our Food While Working Full-Time
1:12 Example Site Overview: Backyard Garden
1:58 Setting Goals for Your Functional Food Garden
2:43 Site Analysis: Work With Nature, Not Against It
3:30 How to Analyse Your Garden Site Step-by-Step
4:02 Site Observation: Key Features in the Backyard
5:29 How to Research Climate for Garden Design
6:32 Climate Summary: What It Means for the Garden
6:57 Creating a Scaled Basemap for Your Garden Design
7:32 Visualising the Sun Path
8:47 Mapping Shady and Sunny Areas of the Garden
9:53 Visualising Water Elements in Garden Planning
10:29 Mapping Prevailing Winds on the Basemap
10:36 Site Analysis Summary
11:06 Designing your Functional Food Garden
11:22 The Permaculture Design Process
12:17 Designing Your Water Strategy: Rainwater & Irrigation
13:49 Permaculture Zones: Placing Elements for Efficiency
14:38 Garden Bed Layout and Access Paths
15:43 Choosing Garden Bed Type: Raised Beds, In-ground Beds & more
16:17 Planning Structures: Compost, Propagation & More
17:15 Selecting & Arranging Diverse Plants for Food Production
18:05 Where to Place Fruit Trees, Herbs & Perennials
19:14 Warm Season Crop Layout: Annual Vegetables
20:41 Final Design Overview
Credit to : Ben Strong – Urban Homestead
