Darrell Frey is a permaculture design consultant and educator based in western Pennsylvania. He’s among the first wave of permaculture practitioners, having begun studying permaculture design in 1980. Frey wrote Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm, which serves as both a case study (of permaculture applied to a 5-acre market garden) and as a guide for designing, building, and managing bioshelters and market garden farms. He’s also the co-author of The Food Forest Handbook. Frey currently offers permaculture education and consultation through Three Sisters Permaculture.
Darrell will be speaking at the Texas, Pennsylvania FairsWorkshops
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Urban Permaculture Urban farms, food forests, and community gardens
Permaculture design offers many strategies to help make our cities more sustainable and livable. This presentation provides small-scale solutions for growing food, promoting biodiversity, and building community.
Modern Homesteading Organic Gardening
Available In:
Texas, Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m., Yanmar Sustainable Agriculture Stage
Pennsylvania, Friday 12:30-1:30 p.m., Homestead Hustle Stage
Food Forests, Texas Style
A food forest is a permaculture system of interplanted fruits, herbs, and vegetables managed to mimic a natural ecosystem. This presentation explores the design and management of food forests with a close look at a residential food forest garden in San Marcos, Texas.
Organic Gardening Keynote
Available In:
Texas, Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m., Mother Earth News Stage
Food Forest Gardening
This presentation focuses on designing productive perennial polycultures built around fruit trees and berry bushes. A food forest garden, based on permaculture principles, combines trees, shrubs, vines, herbs and flowers into a productive, ecologically sound and productive system.
Organic Gardening
Available In:
Pennsylvania, Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m., Heirloom Gardener Stage