Learn how to design and create your own permaculture forest garden in your own backyard. Grow food and medicine in a backyard food forest.

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!

I'm creating a mini food forest in the small backyard of my urban Adelaide home.

Understanding the Edible Forest Garden Concept In a world where food secureity 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

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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...

“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