Food Forests
Food Forest Gardens are NOT gardens in the forest.
They are living, self-maintaining food gardens that mimic the natural cohesion and symbiosis of the forest. Years ago, many species, including man made a living in the forest and work harmonically to produce an abundance and variety of nutritious food and healing herbs.
We are currently dependent on petroleum to receive our food. Healthcare is prohibitively expensive and mostly reacting to our current unhealthy lifestyles.
We can’t continue, and we need to find a way to provide very nutritious, wellness-promoting abundant food for the people.
So, instead of sitting around waiting for ‘them’ to legislate, fund and activate, we can start right now at grass roots creating a food supply for the future.
Food Forest Gardens are the answer to our future
nutrition and wellness challenges.
A family, a group of friends, a local community pulling together can create a forest food garden that will ensure abundant food for the future. This is OUR form of insurance.
Our concept of Food forests are holistic. The ideal food forest incorporate permaculture, aquaponics, organic gardening, natural fertilization, herb culture, animal husbandry. It works in conjunction with annual veggie gardens, greenhouse gardens and kitchen counter top gardens.
A Food Forest Garden is a symbiotic, harmonic system
Food Forest Gardens can be planted anywhere in the world using local plants, seeds and saplings.
The main Food Forest yields perennial supplies of fruit, nuts, berries, medicinal herbs and plants as well as mycelium.
Grazing in areas of the food forest, chickens and goats pick their food from the forest leavings and fertilize the forest in return. They also provide occasional but regular supplies of naturally reared meat, natural eggs, raw milk and cheese.
Wild game in the surrounds provides the LUXURY of occasional meat. In this area we have Deer, Wild Boar and Wild Turkey. Hunted only on occasion, meat will become a special item for community celebrations and festivities.
The basic food forest is perennial and supply the basic nutritional needs of humans as well as being hugely healthy.
It is supplemented with an annual garden of regional vegetables and herbs.
You can build a greenhouse from discard [we have all the windows from a house that's being remodelled] and natural materials or you can purchase a lightweight, portable, adaptable winter greenhouse [you can buy them for $50 upwards on e-bay]
The greenhouse will enable you to grow seedlings in winter so that they are strong for spring planting. They also enable you to grow out of season veggies that would otherwise perish in winter weather.
The kitchen garden is available to anyone. Here you can set aside a counter-top area for sprouting seeds such as alfalfa and broccoli. These provide easy to grow, instant, vitamin & mineral packed, living, therefore utterly fresh, nutrition. Add a handful to every meal. Kitchen gardens also incorporate windowsill herb gardens.
You can also grow mushrooms in a kit and wheatgrass inside. Wheatgrass is not called a Superfood for nothing. When juiced is full of immune boosting minerals, vitamins and nutrients. The healing properties of mushrooms have been known for centuries.
If you don’t have a manual juicer or one of the top of the range Greenstar juicers, you can still pick handfuls and chew it to extract the juice. Anything is possible
Food forests work best on land with slopes, planting in layers with each layer designed to be in the best position for its growth and providing assistance to it’s fellow inhabitants.
Get our free e-learning course plus a bonus e-book here… and there’s a great video on Food Forest Gardens below to clue you in if you’re not already an enthusiastic fan!
See our selection of videos on the sidebar to to the right >> the permascience of creating life, sustaining food forests, forest gardening, water useage, and transitioning from the old life to the new.
