Perennial Polycultures
Ethan Roland & Mai Frank
Forest Garden Immersion Course 2009
Regenerative Apios
Design Group Institute

Eden 2.0 - Holyoke, MA

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Welsh Onion
(Allium fistulosum)
Sweet Cicely
(Myrrhis odorata)
Russian Comfrey
(Symphytum uplandicum)
Good King Henry
(Chenopodium bonus-henricus)
Turkish Rocket
(Bunias orientalis)
HFG polyculture
Photo: Ethan Roland

Prostrate Bird’s Foot Trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus var. plena)
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Prostrate Bird’s Foot Trefoil
Honeyberry
(Loniceracorniculatus var. plena)
(Lotus kamschatica)
Anise Hyssop
(Agastache foeniculum)
Prostrate birdsfoot trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus var. plena)
Sweet Cicely 6
(Myrrhis odorata)

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Siberia pea shrub
(Caragana arborescens)
Sunchoke
(Helianthus tuberosus)
Water Celery
(Oenanthe Javanica)
Dutch White Clover 8
(Trifolium repens)

sFG groundcover
Photo: Ethan Roland

Scaling Up Polycultures

‘Support A’ Polyculture

‘Support A’ Polyculture
• (Apple) • (Malus x domestica)
• Comfrey • Symphytum spp.
• Chickory • Chicorium intybus
• Chives • Allium schoenprasum
• Sweet cicely • Myrrhis odoratum
• Anisse hyssop • Agastache foeniculum
• Yarrow • Achillea millefolium
• Clover • Trifolium spp.
Insectaries always flowering
Self-renewing fertility

TBD understory

TBD understory

TBD understory

‘Support A’
Polyculture
• (Apple) • (Malus x domestica)
• Comfrey • Symphytum spp.
• Chickory • Chicorium intybus
• Chives • Allium schoenprasum
• Sweet cicely • Myrrhis odoratum
• Anisse hyssop • Agastache foeniculum
• Yarrow • Achillea millefolium
• Clover • Trifolium spp.
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‘Support A’
Polyculture
• (Apple)
• Comfrey
• Chickory
• Chives
• Sweet cicely
• Anisse hyssop
• Yarrow
• Clover
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Perennial Polycultures
Ethan Roland & Mai Frank
Forest Garden Immersion Course 2009
Regenerative Apios
Design Group Institute