How to Start a Perennial Food Garden: Hints and tips for getting started

Imagine transforming your garden, allotment, even your patio, into a multilayered edible wildlife haven!
Garden designer, author and forest gardener, Pippa Chapman, chats to Permaculture magazine's Maddy Harland, exploring how she starts designing and implementing perennial food gardens.
Observation is key to all designing, and a base map is also vital in creating the best design for your space. Pippa shares her top tips for getting started, including how to plan your plot and how to site important design elements.
Pippa also explains how to gradually transform an established garden into your dream garden, while maintaining the garden's wildlife ecosystem.
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[@marisaphoenix1893]

I hate the talking into a computer format. Get out in the garden. That’s what it’s all about.

[@PermacultureMagazine]

Thanks for your comment! We feel this is useful advice to enable you to get out and garden as much as possible but with some good information to start with from an experienced designer.

[@MiguelGarrido32]

Thank you for video, felt good listening to it!