Check out why a food forest could be exactly what your backyard needs. The design aims to produce an abundance of various fruits, nuts, berries, and herbs, with minimal maintenance.
As you know forests are completely self-sustaining. Interestingly, no one maintains a natural forest, yet they are the most productive part of ecosystems on Earth. …
A food forest is an edible landscape designed to mimic nature, providing abundant, sustainable yields of fruit, nuts, herbs, and vegetables
Get one step closer to the forest garden of your dreams by creating a plant grouping! These arrangements of plants help contribute to a thriving food forest.
Permaculture food forests are autopilot gardens that need little human intervention except in the beginning. Here's how to build one.
Permaculture food forests are autopilot gardens that need little human intervention except in the beginning. Here's how to build one.
Planting perennial vegetables lets you plant once and harvest delicious (and unusual) veggies for years to come. Find out about more than 50 plants to choose from, many cold hardy to zone 3, or even colder! #perennialvegetables #permaculture
Visit two different forest gardens on two very different sites in Southwest MI—throughout an entire growing season! Forest Gardens or “Food Forests” are a way of growing food by imitating nature: plants on many layers, cooperating rather than competing. It doesn’t mean growing food in a dark forest—more like a semi-open woodland featuring many...
Food forests are all the rage, and they have many homeowners digging up their lawns to plant micro-farms in the back yard. But, what is a food forest, and how ...
Learn to become more self-reliant by establishing an edible food forest on your homestead. This very detailed post will help you get started quickly.
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…
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
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Permaculture food forests are autopilot gardens that need little human intervention except in the beginning. Here's how to build one.
Permaculture principles can decrease your work load, make your garden more productive, make your animals healthier, and generally improve all the systems on your farm or homestead.
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Starting a permaculture food forest can be a great alternative to traditional gardening. It also means less watering, weeding, and maintenance.
Learn to become more self-reliant by establishing an edible food forest on your homestead. This very detailed post will help you get started quickly.
Permaculture makes it easier to maintain your garden. Here are five easy tips to get started with permaculture design in the garden!
A food forest can take up half a lifestyle block or be as small as an urban backyard, but the combination of fruit trees, berries, vines and vegetables – and in some cases animals – can create a resilient, self-sufficient garden that will feed you and your family all year-round. When you arrive at the Koanga Institute, hidden in a remote valley an hour’s drive south-west of Gisborne, it’s a wild-looking place. The beds where the Institute’s precious heritage seeds are grown is easily identifiable as a ‘normal’ garden with plants in neat rows, the corn standing in groups, the
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
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.
Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
Unlike community gardens, food forests are designed to mimic natural ecosystems, protecting soil from erosion and providing habitat for insects, birds, and animals
Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
The benefits of polyculture farming for gardeners and companion planting and growing your best vegetable garden.
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.
Food forests are all the rage, and they have many homeowners digging up their lawns to plant micro-farms in the back yard. But, what is a food forest, and how ...
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
These small permaculture garden layout ideas make sustainable gardening and growing your own food as simple as pie!
You can eat everything that grows in a forest, but only if you plant it yourself. That's the idea behind an edible food forest.
You can eat everything that grows in a forest, but only if you plant it yourself. That's the idea behind an edible food forest.
A food forest is a low-maintenance, sustainable system that mimics a natural forest ecosystem, with layers of plants that work together.
Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
A food forest is a sort of naturalized, perennial, edible planting that capitalizes on aspects of woodland growing--but in your own backyard.
Choosing the perennials for your edible food forest on your homestead can be a lot of fun. This post shares some options that grow well in most climates.
Permaculture was first introduced as a concept in the 1970s by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison while the two were studying environmental design at a
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at different cities in Canada that are cultivating "food forests" and why a Quebec couple is fighting to grow wild plants.
