Feb 13, 2025

Native Perennial Food Plants for Your Edible Landscape (Zoom Event)

Presented by Dani Baker

Meeting ID: 917 5836 4715
Passcode: 461969

When placed in habitats that meet their needs, native plants tend to be well adapted to our climate and have few pest, disease or maintenance problems. This illustrated talk will describe the growth habit, preferred habitat, care required, food value, other users, aesthetic appeal and propagation techniques for over 25 native perennial plants you can include in your edible landscape. The plants range from trees to bushes, groundcovers, roots and even vines. If you want to create an edible hedge, an edible bed, a foundation planting, a you-pick venue, or a forest garden, you will discover there are a variety of native food plants to choose from to fill your space.

Dani Baker is a self-taught organic farmer and edible forest gardener who began planning and planting the “Enchanted Edible Forest,” a permaculture-inspired acre of over 300 different food-producing plants in 2013. In May of 2022 her book, The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape was published by Chelsea Green.

Dani loves to inspire others: homeowners, homesteaders, farmers and landscapers to landscape their plots, large or small, with perennial food plants incorporating principles that reduce their labor going forward while increasing the abundance of their harvest year after year.

Handout: Native Perennial Food Plants for Your Edible Landscape

Starts at 7:00 pm
Amherst Town Library
14 Main Street
Amherst, NH

The public is welcome. All must register through the library