Permaculture food forest

In a forest, the plants collaborate. They take turns blooming, share space, distribute different nutrients and succeed each other over generations.

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

Transform your yard into a thriving oasis with our guide on How to Create a Permaculture Food Forest or Forest Garden! Perfect for those passionate about gardening and permaculture, this post offers step-by-step instructions and tips. Ideal for beginner gardeners, you'll learn how to design a sustainable food forest that produces abundant harvests with minimal effort. Start your permaculture journey today!

Understanding the Edible Forest Garden Concept In a world where food security is increasingly volatile, creating an edible forest garden stands out not only as a sustainable choice but a necessary step towards self-reliance. The fundamental idea is to mimic natural ecosystems focusing predominantly on trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals that can feed you and

Growing sweet potatoes in a food forest is easy - check out how I did it and see the incredible yields possible with almost NO WORK!

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.

“I started out wanting to grow food for my husband and I, and then I figured out I enjoy growing the food for the insects and the bees and the butterflies the most,” Lockhart gardener Donna Daniels told us last November. Gardening was new to her, though, when she and husband Len Gabbay scooted ou

Diagram I originally made for the Oikos print catalog, but which Ken wasn't interested in including, showing the main layers of a multidimensional forest garden ecosystem.

This backyard food forest hosts a diverse planting of fruit trees and berries, with a mixed-species meadow understory to support pollinators and repair soil. Here's what we did.

How to Start a Food Forest For centuries, people have used food forests to grow an abundance of food in small spaces. More and more people are rediscovering the benefits of having a food forest around their homes. Inside, you can find out all about food forests and learn the basics of setting up a f