The Power of Meditative Foraging and Forest Therapy
Over the past years, I’ve been eagerly exploring ways to reconnect humans back to nature on every level. Through creating forest gardens, I understood the power of creating ecosystems of …
Food Forest Introduction – The Seven Layers of the Forest Garden
In this series of articles, I will walk you through the seven layers of the forest garden or backyard food forest, explaining the purpose and function of each one and some of the …
Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest Part 5: Climbing Plants
There’s a bit of an odd-one-out among the seven layers of the permaculture food forest garden – a group that doesn’t fit into any one particular compartment of the garden …
Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest Part 4: Understory and Canopy Trees
In our exploration of temperate food forest layers, we’ve been taking a closer look at each of the 7 layers; what we can plant there and how to design each …
Mindful Growing, Harvesting, and Eating to Nourish Your Body and Soul
Real permaculture is all about making every aspect of life sustainable so that we can go on living in harmony with nature indefinitely. Mindfulness is a key part of that …
Layers of a Food Forest: Permaculture Shrubs [Part 3]
So far, in our exploration of the different layers of the permaculture food forest garden, we have covered the underground and herbaceous layers that comprise the smaller plants of the …
The Groundcover and Herbaceous Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest
What makes a food forest garden different from an orchard? One of the distinctions lies in what’s growing on the ground… In conventional orchards, the ground is either mown, grazed, …
The Root Layer of a Food Forest (Layer 1 of the 7 Layers)
One of the defining features of forest gardens and food forests is how they utilize space to maximum efficiency by growing crops in several “layers” – just as you’d see …
The Healing Power of Nature Therapy and How to Get Started Today
We all know the delight of stepping out into the wild when we feel stuck inside. A breath of fresh air, a breeze of sanity, a beam of light, the …
Meditative Foraging Offers So Much More Than a Basket of Food
When we take a wander through the wild world, few of us seem to realize the treasure trove we are stumbling through. Almost as if in a sleepwalk, our conditioning …
Salad Grows on Trees! Five Trees With Edible Leaves You Can Easily Grow Yourself
Tilling, seeding, watering, weeding, slug-picking, and… lick your lips! Almost ready… Nope. Sorry, now it’s bolting. Hmmph. If only salad grew on trees… But, what’s that? You say it can?! …
The Forest Food Web and What It Means in Your Edible Forest Garden
Successful forest gardens and food forests are all about recreating the ingenious design principles that natural ecosystems were created with in the first place. The more we go out and …