Benefits of food forestry. When it comes to food forestry, “It’s actually focused on doing less work, not more,” says Tony Dickey, a core volunteer heading up pollinator initiatives at ...

Food forests require less maintenance than gardens and orchards, and they yield more fruit. Here's how to start growing your own.

A Mount Pleasant couple transformed their grassy backyard into a lush food forest with maturing fruit trees and gardens that ...

Recently I encountered the term ‘food forest.’ The unfamiliar term piqued my curiosity as my gardening interests primarily involve growing food. One cold, dreary day, I decided I needed to ...

Here are six ideas to steal front this front-yard food forest in Alameda, CA: Photography Caitlin Atkinson for Pine House ...

Building a forest. The garden planting is a major milestone in this cross-disciplinary project. Supported by a seed grant from the Center for Food Systems and Sustainability (CENFOODS), the edible ...

Food forests, aka forest gardens, are popping up in public spaces in the United States in cities ranging from Seattle to Tulsa, Okla. In a nutshell, ...

In this Reddit post, the homeowner shared before-and-after photos of their garden, which had been completely transformed over the past 2 1/2 years from a patch of pea gravel and weeds into a ...

The food forest and gardens have since provided free produce — available 24/7 — to students and community members. “We've made it very clear that it was ‘take what you need, ...

He envisions the food forest as a community gathering spot where families could pick fresh food, take gardening classes and connect with the land. Bumper crops could be donated to local food banks.