Food forest guilds

“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

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

In one of our recent articles I wrote about companion planting and the specific plants my husband and I have grown successfully togethe...

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...

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.

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.

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

Forest garden 7 layers of edible plants

Diagram I originally made for the Oikos print catalog, but which Ken wasn't interested in including, showing the main layers of a multidimensional forest garden ecosystem.