Ideas on How To Grow Food Forests

Simple ways to reforest the planet with useful and robust plants.

photo: the Ogfor Planter made it easy to direct seed this seedlings spot sprouting along a bed of hardy and very edible Day Lilies flowers plants in early spring.
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  • Unread posts Orchards from Fruits and Nuts Seeds
    Using recycled fruit seeds and nuts to develop new tree selections for foresters, farmers, landscapers and gardeners.

    photo: Mount-Royal Plum Seedlings sprouting out of cactus soil mix in early spring.
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    April 2nd, 2012, 11:33 am
  • Unread posts Sell your Weeds
    Some abundant growing wild plants have potential as a crop for their high nutritional qualities, good taste, high yields, historical usage, medicinal properties, building or handcraft material, resistance to herbicide...

    photo of a bunch of wild Mora harvested in a tomato field in Quebec
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    January 13th, 2012, 11:40 am
  • Unread posts Recycle your extra Seeds into Seedballs and Green Manure
    The revolutionary but very ancient seed planting technology using pellets made of clay, compost, seeds, spores and mycelium, and sometime fertilizer or dried herbs.
    Also make inexpensive green manure crops with some of your leftover seeds and have your own natural genetic research center while improving and testing your soil. Your breeding work could be very rewarding for it's possible contribution to biodiversity for finding a useful vigorous crop that grow without needing fertilizers or chemicals.

    photo of the Masanobu Fukuoka Orchard in Japan last century.
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    September 10th, 2011, 9:34 pm
  • Prepare the Land as Little As Possible
    A lot of lands are not great for farming but there are plenty of ways to naturally (and cheaply) fertilize soil and start Gardens and Food Forests.
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    January 13th, 2012, 11:29 am
  • Free Range Animals
    How To manage a semi-wild environment with animals taking care of weeding and giving you high quality insects, meat, eggs, milk or high-protein feed for poultry, fish and wildlife...
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    December 29th, 2011, 10:15 am
  • Unread posts Built it yourself
    Wind machines, planting sticks, everything needed to grow and market productions from food forests...

    photo of the first steel planter prototype planting a Seedball
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    December 9th, 2011, 12:11 am
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