PHIGBLOG is about growing food in Philadelphia. PHIGBLOG is a news service covering urban farming, edible landscaping, and related themes. PHIGBLOG is a guidebook for city folks to learn more about how to grow their own food. PHIGBLOG is about vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs, chickens, and more.
- PHIGBLOG creator Phil Forsyth is a professional landscape designer specializing in ecological garden design, edible landscaping, and Permaculture. His company is Forsyth Gardens (www.forsythgardens.com).
Pears in a Forsyth Gardens landscape.
- Mr. Forsyth has a BA in Landscape Design & Contracting from Colorado State University and a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (www.crmpi.org).
- Mr. Forsyth currently serves as Orchard Director for the Philadelphia Orchard Project (www.phillyorchards.org), a non-profit that transforms neglected urban spaces into vibrant community orchards.
A Philadelphia Orchard Project planting.
- Mr. Forsyth has previously worked as a landscape designer for Donald Pell Gardens.
- Prior to opening Forsyth Gardens in Philadelphia, Mr. Forsyth spent four years designing, developing, and managing an urban farm project at the site of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn.
Kitchen garden at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum.
- Mr. Forsyth has written several articles published in the Permaculture Activist magazine.
- Mr. Forsyth has taught workshops on garden planning, fruit growing, permaculture, and more at a wide variety of venues including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the US Botanic Garden, PASA, Just Food, and Grow Together conferences.
