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Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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Monthly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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Fruit trees spacing & Mixed orchard

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Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

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Article saying temperate food forests don't work

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Building a food forest on the edge of the desert.

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Why are we mowing?

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Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)

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Syntropic Agriculture

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long-term lessons from food forests--failures and successes both?

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Why Canadian Cities are planting Food Forests - CBC article

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Using trees as arbor for grapes

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What are your thoughts on Autumn Olive?

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Ferns, the Epic Fruit Tree Mulch (...or am I missing something?)

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New to permaculture, but a little confused.

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Please show me your food forest... pictures, pictures and more pictures!!!

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Daily Sustenance from a Forest Garden?

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Plot 33: A new community 'forest garden'

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101 Things to do with a pile of sticks

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Daily Sustenance from a Forest Garden?

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Assisted forest migration

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Converting a Monoculture Orchard To a Food Forest

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Help tweak plan

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For the love of buckthorn

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How do you decide where a species belongs in a food forest?

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Planting for resilience

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Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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Show me your rainwater irrigation setups!

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How to start ginseng?

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should I redig my mini-swales?

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where to start?

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Trumpet vine!

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For those whose successfully made a "low-maintenance" food forest...

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What are your favorite honeysuckle removal tools?

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Some fruit and nut guilds

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An appreciation of the Mayapple

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Use and benefits of using Caucasian Mountain spinach in our gardens.

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Starting my Food Forest in Zone 8 (East Alabama)

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unidentified weed ( Thlaspi arvensis)

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Daily Sustenance from a Forest Garden?

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woodland

101 Things to do with a pile of sawdust/shavings

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Lathyrism?

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plants

Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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I built a tool to visualize tree shade in agroforestry systems — looking for feedback

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Assisted forest migration

3 days ago 12 replies 5 27

tips for awkward spots

Introducing Pacific, Virginia, and western waterleafs – 3 native wild vegetables

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Plant Biodiversity in the Food Forest

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For those whose successfully made a "low-maintenance" food forest...

1 week ago 6 replies 2 3

apples

What to grow underneath my apple trees?

1 week ago 40 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 25

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Show me your rainwater irrigation setups!

2 weeks ago 20 replies 1 9 7

To mulch or STUN to start a food forest

2 weeks ago 12 replies 12

perennial vegetables

Is anyone growing fawn lily (Erythronium species) for food?

2 weeks ago 21 replies 4 14

Getting water up 100 feet + 300 more from river

2 weeks ago 7 replies 1

Fruit and nut trees that thrive in Michigan, 6b

2 weeks ago 4 replies

Trumpet vine!

3 weeks ago 6 replies 1

woodland

Considering the root layer of trees

3 weeks ago 22 replies 1 6 28

wild harvesting

What's your favorite wild fruit to harvest and eat?

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fruit trees

Growing Pawpaws Naturally

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A Food Forest From the Grocery Store?

1 month ago 20 replies 10

An appreciation of the Mayapple

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Why Canadian Cities are planting Food Forests - CBC article

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Ideas for annual cover crops with allelopathic interactions that kill/inhibit common bermudagrass?

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The results of 2+ years of wild homesteading and permaculture

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edible forest gardens

Community/public access food forests and garden projects! With free food!

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Wild Chestnuts

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apples

Value of crab apple?

1 month ago 64 replies [ 1, 2 ] 3 19

Podcast : Perennial AF episode :Organic Agroforestry Management Farm Tour in Spring Green, Wisconsin

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Black Mulberry and Black Walnut

1 month ago 7 replies 1

Are there any particularly cold-hardy cultivars of Cornus mas or Elaeagnus multiflora/umbellata

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cherries

Grafting Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)

1 month ago 6 replies 2

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For the love of buckthorn

1 month ago 6 replies 5

How to start ginseng?

1 month ago 4 replies 9

potatoes

Permie potato beds

2 months ago 12 replies 2 2

Anyone experience growing and guilding redbud?

2 months ago 5 replies

projects

STUMPS (and their roots) as a basis for fruit tree guilds

2 months ago 24 replies 16 10

plants

easily introducing a guild under a fruit tree (stump the permie experts)

2 months ago 33 replies 2 4

Some fruit and nut guilds

2 months ago 4 replies

Design Ideas for Northeast Florida Zone 9A Food Forest

2 months ago 4 replies 2

plants

Are you growing a new vegetable this year?

2 months ago 94 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 57

plums

Best tasting European Plums

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oklahoma and texas

Jarrell, TX Food Forest project

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Why you should have snags on your land

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