About Food Forests and Edible Landscapes
7 Layer Food Forest
A food forest is a diverse, perennial garden that mimics a forest ecosystem and patterns found in nature. Through layers of design, life extends in all directions producing food, medicine, sanctuary, and habitat.
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Food forests incorporate 7 layers of edible plants including fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, rhizomes, mushrooms, and perennial vegetables. A food forest is thoughtfully designed to produce maximum nutrition, beauty and abundance.
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Food forests integrate and draw from the disciplines of permaculture, regenerative agriculture, ecology, biology, and other natural sciences. Together, these disciplines create a living set of tools and practices that can help us engage with nature and our food production in a meaningful way.
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A diverse community of life can grow in a small space, making food forests especially suitable for urban and suburban environments. At a deeper individual level, the practice of food forestry can help us cultivate ourselves and transform the ways in which we see and live in the world.
Blueprint Design Examples
Blueprint Design Examples
Food Forest Design Blueprint
Your Food Forest Landscape Blueprint will be fully customized to your climate, planting zone, topography, space, as well as to the beauty, functionality, and abundance you wish to have. Pricing is based on the desired size of your design (not your total lot size).
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Small (up to 1/4 acre) - $797.00
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Medium (over 1/4 acre up to 1 acre) - $1,500.00
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Large (over 1 up to 3 acres) - $2,750.00
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Once you have contacted us and purchased a Food Forest Landscape Blueprint, our certified permaculture designer will begin the design process with you.
10 Reasons to Install a Food Forest
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It's easy. Perennial plants are low
maintenance and take little effort to produce food & medicine for years.
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The taste and flavor of fresh picked fruits, berries, vegetables, & herbs is outstanding.
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Growing your own food has a great ROI (return on investment) compared to buying the same foods at the store.
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Spending time in your food forest can reduce stress & anxiety, and create opportunities for meditation.
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You can create greater food security with a local food system that startswith a food forest & extends indoors.
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Planting trees will help reverse
deforestation and provide more animal habitats.
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Food forests create diverse ecosystems for nature to flourish and provide more abundance.
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Greater freedom is attained through a self-reliant and empowered food system starting in your own yard.
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Regenerating soil through perennial agriculture and composting creates healthier plants, foods, & ecosystems.
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You can reduce your consumption of poisons and toxins from chemically sprayed foods.