All levels of agro productivity…from the ground to the fruit to the timber…makes a nice balanced Food forest!

Linda and Larry Saltzman, Founders of the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club, share with us a Food Forest right in their suburban backyard. Produced by Jill Cloutier, Carol Hirashima & Logan Nevitt.

Planted April 29-30 at the Forest Garden Design Course, we’re already getting abundant yields from the multifunctional food forest system. Everything is healthy and

An Autumn Day at Moulsecoomb Forest Garden

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Inspired by Robert Hart’s forest garden at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire, tranquil and abundant edible landscapes are now springing up throughout our towns and cities

My allotment in Liverpool. Summer 2008, the first video during the summer. A companion to my website allaboutliverpool.com …

In the eastern hills of Oakland, Common Vision joined forces with three classes at Merritt to transform a steep hillside into a permaculture food forest with 108 fruit trees! Before trees were planted a team of pickaxers and shovelers built swales, long on-contour ditches, designed to harvest 1000's of gallons of rainwater and store it deep in the hillside. Over 75 Common Vision crew and Merritt College students worked all day, accompanied by the drums, to plant the widest spread of tree …

Learn the secrets of properly planting a fruit-bearing tree from a suburban permaculture workshop led by Brendan and Gusti, two inspiring leaders of Tri-State Food Not Lawns. The eco-lawn saves you water, money and provides a varied visual; why didn't I think of that? Using sand and stones around the root ball makes it super-easy for the fruit tree roots to absorb water as soil organisms do not compete for food and the soil becomes more permeable. Why didn't I think of that? The light was …

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