Tend a Thriving Food Forest with Pippa Chapman | The Beet

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this week’s episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques gets into all things permaculture with Pippa Chapman—permaculturalist, author, and food forester. Pippa shares her journey from running a pristine private estate to embracing the wilder, more abundant world of permaculture. They also discuss her book, Permaculture Planting Designs, a comprehensive guide to creating sustainable garden ecosystems. Connect with Pippa Chapman: Pippa Chapman has been getting her hands dirty for over 30 years, and she’s just getting started. After leaving her role as Head Gardener on a private estate, she took a deep dive into sustainable growing with a year-long apprenticeship at RHS Harlow Carr, where she discovered forest gardening and permaculture. In 2010, she and her husband launched a sustainable gardening business, and today, Pippa grows an abundant mix of fruits, flowers, herbs, and veg in her small backyard. Find more from Pippa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippachapman_thoseplantpeople Find more from Pippa on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PippaChapmanPermaculture Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	One of the questions I get asked all the time in terms of food forests is I don't know
0:34.5	if I can include all the layers. And you don't need all the layers to call
0:38.5	it a food forest. You know, when we talk about layers in a food forest, that's kind of an easy way
0:44.0	to break down the pattern of a forest ecosystem so that we can easily understand it and try
0:50.6	and recreate that in our own gardens or on our farms.
0:54.5	You know, if you go for a walk in some woodland,
0:57.3	you wouldn't necessarily be able to tick off all of those boxes
1:00.4	in every single meter square of woodland across the globe.
1:08.3	Welcome to the Beat Podcast.
1:09.4	I'm your host today, Jacques Lyokov, and today we are going to be talking permaculture with Pippa Chapman. And she just wrote a lovely book called Permaculture Planting Design, which I've had a chance to go through. And we're definitely going to talk about it. But I would love to hear about where you are, where you're gardening, and sort of what drew you into gardening
1:28.1	and maybe into permaculture in the first place. Hi. Yeah, lovely to be here. I am in Yorkshire,
1:34.6	in England. It's evening here now. So, yeah, and so yeah, what drew me into gardening?
1:45.0	I've just always loved being outside.
1:47.0	I've always loved plants and nature when I was younger.
1:51.0	I was really lucky to grow up in the Yorkshire Dales
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