After ten years of mowing, weeding, pruning and battling to keep our mature shrubberies under control, we decided to turn our garden into a food forest. The idea that pruning could be harvesting was very appealing.
It was a revelation to us that vegetables could be perennial like fruit trees and that they did not require annual digging, sowing, weeding and watering. A resilient, edible landscape seemed like an appropriate response to our concerns about climate change and food miles. Given that our ornamental shrubberies were so irrepressible, how hard could it be to convert them to an edible woodland! Looking at the garden with new eyes the first surprise was that many of the existing plants were indeed edible. But that’s another story.
Granny's Garden Forest 