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A food forest is a perennial garden modeled after a forest. Each plant filling a niche amongst the 7 forest layers. The food forest I have planted is 7 years old and the largest fruit trees are now starting to produce. I'm growing apples, peaches, plums and cherries. Below are hazelnut and elderberry. Then raspberry, gooseberry and currant. Below that, rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish, comfrey. Finally strawberry ground cover. I am growing hops and grapes trellised in nitrogen fixing black alder trees too. Everything is commingled in rows and in-between the rows of perennials I plant subsistence crops like potatoes, squash, and garlic while I can still get enough light before the canopy of the fruit trees close. There are more plants in there that play a more supplemental role like mulberry, black locust, cup plant, yarrow, and zizia. Hundreds of pounds of food come from the 1/10 acre area every year without watering. I weed/fertilize less each year and spend more time planting, harvesting and managing the existing plants. It's a low time preference way to grow a diverse and large amount of nutrition in a small space. Just takes years to establish. #permaculture #permies #homeateading #meshtadel #foodforest

That’s really cool. I imagine if I YouTube this I can learn all about it.

Would love to see pics

Tons of great content on you tube. From 5-10 minute tours of food forests to in depth how to videos.

Reading & watching videos by searching ‘permaculture’ is a good start too. Permaculture is the green pill, a bottomless rabbit hole in of itself

This is wealth.

Thanks for the layer description. Sounds like a magical forest. Have you posted pictures I can find for reference. I am working on a similar project but am a few years behind you.

The green pill is the first one I took

Same.