Forest Gardening

Forest gardening takes an ecosystem approach to growing food, by integrating fruit and nut trees with shrubs, herbs, roots, vegetables, fungi, and supporting fertility plants. Requiring an initial investment of time and energy, forest gardening is a long term, sustainable and low maintenance system that is well suited to those who have access to an area of land over a long period of time.

Introduction to forest garden establishment, including land assessment, planning and research, and development of canopy, shrub level and ground level.

A detailed description of the establishment of a forest garden at Victoria Farm in Geneva, Florida, providing an example of the planning and research involved when beginning a forest garden.

Learn about the establishment of forest gardens at The Living Centre in southwestern Ontario, from their initial vision to the implantation of diverse forest gardens as part of an ethic of land stewardship.

Organizations and books to further explore forest gardening, along with a listing of nurseries in North America that supply hard-to-find species.