Food forests

Permaculture food forests are autopilot gardens that need little human intervention except in the beginning. Here's how to build one.

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.

Diagram I originally made for the Oikos print catalog, but which Ken wasn't interested in including, showing the main layers of a multidimensional forest garden ecosystem.

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!

Permaculture, regenerative agriculture, forest gardening, sustainable home restoration, community organizing, edible landscaping: Pathways to plenty.

A food forest is a low-maintenance, sustainable system that mimics a natural forest ecosystem, with layers of plants that work together.

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.

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.

So you want to design and plant a food forest. But which type of food forest is right for you? Click and find out which type is right for you.