Florida food forest

Growing food doesn’t need to be hard or expensive. You don’t need a bunch of raised beds or expensive planter boxes. If you have an area in your yard about 30 feet long and 10 feet wide give or take, you can grow a pretty good amount of food for very little money and take care of it in an hour or two a week.

We grow a lot of plants on our 2.6-acre food forest in Florida, zone 9b! Edibles, natives, host plants, pollinators, chop & drop, and more!

Starting a permaculture food forest can be a great alternative to traditional gardening. It also means less watering, weeding, and maintenance.

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Composting storm debris can help you create and enrich soil. David the Good offers 4 proven methods that will help you turn yard trash into treasure.

If you want a food forest filled with abundance for people, plants and wildlife, then don't skimp on the shrub layer! Here are 5 reasons.

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.

Food forest plants in South Florida - 7 layers (click here to enlarge the image ). The list is open for edit. Please feel free to add yo...

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If you've been fighting with your Florida garden, you're doing it wrong! Florida wants to be covered in forest, not grass and annuals. Picture yourself strolling through a lush and tame jungle loaded with sweet fruit, vegetables, roots, medicinal herbs, flowers and darting butterflies. Now imagine ...

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.

The before and after photographs in this article were taken at the very beginning when I first finished planting up my urban backyard food forest, and then approximately three to four years later. Each pair of photographs was taken from roughly the same view point, so the same garden beds are visible, to shown the…

Growing Seminole pumpkins is easy - I've got them growing in my food forest with no work!

Put Your Yard to Work For You! by Amanda Rose Newton If the thought of making a simple raised bed garden makes you overwhelmed, having your backyard serve as a food ecosystem may seem out of the question! However, creating your own food forest is not only obtainable but it’s built around a few classic […]

Wondering how to create a food forest or forest garden? Follow these steps to design your own food forest garden and reap the abundance all season.

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 do you start one? A

I would like to share couple of notes we figured out about growing food forest in Portugal. As well as list some plants for every layer, that give us good results.