If you’re in Seattle, definitely visit the Beacon Hill Food Forest, and consider volunteering. What are the essential steps for creating your own food forest? 1. After you’ve done your research, go ...

Building a food forest is a time-consuming process, but the results can be pretty amazing. "You get very intimate with your land. You know every tree, you know every bush, every bug," said Hochberg.

There are ways to accelerate 'ecological succession' and reap the benefits of a food forest in as little as 10 years. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening ...

She has helped to create 24 food forests on school grounds in Broward County in South Florida. They give children a place to sit still, she said, and learn about how things grow.

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

For many, the value of forest farming is clear: free food for the picking right in their own backyard. But there’s more to it than that; conservation is also a major component.