Have you ever tried growing a food forest before?

Tune in to the latest podcast for my conversation with Pippa Chapman   author, permaculture designer, forest gardener, artist and mother to learn the best way to start forest gardening as well as her simple process of writing a permaculture book.

We chat about how to create multiple layers on a small-scale to maximise your growing area, using polycultures and guilds for healthy, low-maintenance food. Pippa also shares how to use perennials for structure and for year-round food, and how to incorporate flowers for beauty, wildlife and for the kitchen as well as her journey finding permaculture.

Based in Yorkshire, Pippa has been professionally gardening for over 30 years, but shes been exploring nature since she was a little girl. In 2007, she left her job as Head Gardener on a private estate to take a year-long practical apprenticeship at RHS Harlow Carr. Then she discovered permaculture and everything changed!

In her (first) book, The Plant Lovers Backyard Forest Garden, published by Permanent Publications, Pippa explores how to grow your own beautiful multilayered food forest in your own backyard.

She was introduced to forest gardening and permaculture and in 2010 set up a sustainable gardening business with her husband  Those Plant People.

She grows a wide variety of fruits, flowers, herbs and annual and perennial vegetables in her small backyard, creating a beautiful, edible and wildlife friendly space.

You can find her on Instagram and Youtube as well.

 

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Or access it on any streaming platform HERE.

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Read the full transcript:

Morag:

Hello and welcome to the show everyone! Were here on Sensemaking in a Changing World and were continuing our Permaculture Writers Series with my guest today, Pippa Chapman from West Yorkshire. Pippa is the author of A Plant Lovers Backyard Food Forest. Im really excited to t...

Like me, Della has also spent a lot of time at Schumacher College (she completed her MA in Economics for Transition) and she works closely with Fritjof Capra and his course, the Systems View of Life.  Della also runs a podcast the Upstream Podcast!

She teaches financial permaculture on several Permaculture Design Courses throughout the Bay Area of California, and is also part of the Work that Reconnects, following Joana Macys work.

Della is also:

• a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at London School of Economics
• a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer
• a founding member of the Doughnut Economics California Coalition (DECC)
• a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Gaia Education.

Read more  her article in Kosmos Journal: Cultivating Right Livelihood.

 

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Read the full transcript:

Morag:

Welcome to the show, Della. Its an absolute delight to have you here with me to talk about permaculture from an economic perspective, a financial perspective. One of the things that you describe yourself, as in the many things that you work on, is you describe yourself as a Renegade Economist. So welcome to the show and please, can you describe what a Renegade Economist is?

 

Della:

Yes, so the inspiration of calling myself a Renegade Economist came from Kate Raworth, who...