Category: Food Forests
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What is a Forest Garden? And How to Grow Amazing Food in Your Backyard
Forests in nature are resilient, diverse, self-regulating ecosystems. They provide all the nutritional needs of their residents – birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, microorganisms, etc. A forest garden, sometimes called a food forest, does the same for people, providing food, shade, wildlife, and an outdoor place to enjoy. A forest garden is a cultivated, edible, and diverse…
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5 Final Fast Growing Perennials to Quickly Grow Your Edible Landscape
Welcome back to the last installment of this fast growing plants series. These last five fast-growing plants all happen to be perennials. I’ll discuss each plant briefly, covering its benefits and uses, growing and harvesting tips, and design ideas and varieties to consider. These fast growing perennials are excellent options (depending on your climate) to…
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5 More Fast Growing Plants to Quickly Establish Your Forest Garden
Welcome back. It’s time for part two of this fast growing plants series. If you haven’t already, check out part one, Five Fantastic Fast Growing Plants to Kickstart Your Food Forest. Today we’ll cover five more fast growing plants to help your perennial garden or food forest to fill in quickly. As with part one,…
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Five Fantastic Fast-Growing Plants to Kick-Start Your Food Forest
Are you looking to create a thriving food forest or edible perennial garden? Starting with fast growing plants will provide you with some quick successes to get your garden off to a strong start. These resilient plants will rapidly establish themselves and provide you with abundant foliage or harvests in the first or second year.…
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A Practical Spring Garden Checklist for the Urban Food Forest
Spring is in full swing and if you’re like me, you have no shortage of chores in the yard and garden. It can be daunting to keep track of everything that needs doing for your garden, yard, or food forest. That’s why I’ve made this Spring Garden Checklist. I wanted a list of everything to…
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What an Urban Food Forest Looks Like After One Year
Last month, I posted an update on our property, showing how I’ve begun to implement a permaculture design and how the backyard has changed after moving in one year ago. Today, I want to give you a closer look at our baby urban food forest. I’ll talk about how we planned and started our backyard…
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How to Prepare Your Food Forest for Winter: 27 Fall Garden Tasks
Growing a food forest is fun and exciting, but it can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes time for seasonal maintenance. If you’re new to food foresting and aren’t sure what to do with the forest garden the in fall, then you’ve landed in the right place. Use this list of fall garden tasks, specially…
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7 Winter Tasks for Your Backyard Food Forest
Have fun with these seven winter activities that will get your brand new food forest off to a good start this spring.
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The Ultimate Fruit Tree Guild Design Guide: 7 Steps to a Bountiful Guild
Hello, friends. Are you excited to plant a fruit tree guild? Me too! But it’s winter at the moment, so instead of planting one I’m reading and writing about them, and planning my own for next spring. What is a fruit tree guild? Since you’re here, you probably already know, but just to cover our…