The Food Forward Garden with Christian Douglas

In episode 115 of the Encyclopedia Botanica podcast, host Hilary Dahl interviews Christian Douglas of Christian Douglas Design and the Backyard Farm Co. about his new book, The Food Forward Garden. They discuss Christian's principles of good food forward design. They also discuss integrating vegetable gardens into existing landscapes. Christian shares insights from his diverse background in horticulture, design, and permaculture, emphasizing the value of growing food for personal and environmental benefits.

Buy Christian's book from Bookshop.org: ⁠"The Food Forward Garden: A Complete Guide to Designing and Growing Edible Landscapes"⁠

Building a raised bed vegetable garden video: Drip Irrigation Parts List

Here’s a list of all the irrigation parts we talk about and use in our drip irrigation video series on building a raised bed vegetable garden:

• Backflow preventer

• plumber’s tape

• y-valve

• timer

• pressure regulator

• filter

• mainline start piece

• mainline tubing

• mainline coupler

• mainline tee

• mainline elbow

• mainline flush cap

• landscape staples (irrigation line hold-downs)

• hole punch

• goof plugs

• tape loc (attach drip lines to mainline)

• tape coupler (repair drip tapes)

• drip tape - we prefer the brand Aqua Traxx, and that’s what we use, but haven’t been able to find a link to the correct pressure and emitter spacing, so this is the closest we can find!

• drip tape valve (turn off individual tapes)

• grip sleeves (drip tape end caps)

• channel locks

• snips

• tape measure

• shovel