Food forest garden layout

Food Forests, or Edible Forest Gardens, are collections of food plants arranged in mutually supportive patterns similar to those found in natural forests. A team of Permaculture Designers in 2013...

A food forest is all about borrowing the best elements of a forest to create a self-sustaining, healthy food garden to feed you for years to come.

Having a large garden has been a dream of ours for years. In 2015 we unexpectedly got a chance to buy a plot basically next to our allotment. The plot is a slightly tapered rectangular (which I gue…

Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!

12 easy steps to start a food forest. Such forests don’t need to be weeded because all parts of the food forest work together and enhance each other. Following are the benefits which you get from the forest garden. The plants which you grow in the forest garden are perennial. So there is no need for digging or tilling the soil. In this way, the structure of the soil will not disturb.

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

How to establish a successful food forest in your backyard? Follow these tips on how to plan and design your food forest for success. Which food plants and trees should you include? Ideas for your food forest garden. #foodforest #backyard #foodforrestdesign #gardenideas #backyardplants #foodplants

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Ditch the vegetable garden and redesign your food garden as a forest! Food forests are a traditional but seriously cool practice of growing your own self-reliant mini forests that produce tons of food. Start designing your own edible forest garden today! #foodforest #homesteading #ediblegarden #growingfood #theregenerativegarden #gardentherapy

Interplanting and underplanting increase yield in small spaces. Interplanting involves growing smaller crops around your larger crops before

How to plant a food forest. Part one of this series of blog posts addresses the top 10 biggest myths regarding a food forest.

Get ready to create your own seven-layer forest garden! Food forests are life-filled places that provide habitat for wildlife and food for humans.

We've just had a trip to Sydney where we visited friends and family and spent two days at the Food Forest with locals pruning, planting, th...

A beginner guide to getting started with permaculture principles on the homestead. Create your own food forest in your backyard.

Converting a small existing orchard to an edible forest garden

Ok, so we’ve gone over some basics of community food forests: Now it’s time to figure out how to plan one. There are two schools of thought on the best approach to building a community food forest: agroforestry or permaculture. The former offers a science-based approach while the latter incorporates elements of social design. Both work well on their own, however, it doesn’t have to be an either or situation as explained in The Wetherby Edible Forest example.

A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy. Find out how to create a low-maintenance, permaculture garden with edible rewards!