Workshop Description
Food growing is often the starting point for gardeners, but edible perennial plants are often overlooked. Deep rooted, sturdier and easier to grow than annuals, perennials are the best addition to a food growers’ garden.
This workshop will introduce you to edibles that are resilient, flavoursome and nutritious. The session will also discuss how perennial gardens create shade and cooling while providing stunning vistas in your patch. With less soil disturbance, perennial gardening helps build healthy soil and the talk will cover how they store more carbon under our feet and in the plants themselves. As such, perennials are seen as playing an important role in mitigating against climate change.
With a need to broaden the variety of food we grow to improve both resilience and nutrition, there is no better time to introduce yourself to perennial edibles.
Topics Covered
This session will cover –
- What perennial food growing is and how you may already be doing it without even knowing!
- The advantages of growing perennial food for you and your local environment.
- How perennial edible gardening fits in with other gardening approaches and styles.
- Where to start in your garden and what to consider in relation to design, soil, conditions and convenience.
- The perennial herbs, fruits and vegetables that like certain soils and conditions you may have to offer.
- The Top 12 Perennials to start off with and how to grow them.
- Other resources you can use moving forward.