The short answer to this question is that a food forest is a landscape designed according to the principles that make ecosystems healthy and stable. Food forests are gaining ground for good reason. On any scale, from public parks to small home gardens, they can weave a web of mutual relationships and well being. Come learn about how to bring their benefits to any landscape from one tree or shrub in your backyard to a whole acre. You’ll hear food forest stories, learn basic design principles and how many possibilities one food forest can contain.
This class is led by Jessica Soza who has been a professional gardener and permaculture designer for 15 years. Most recently she spent 5 years developing the Low Bench Food Forest in Montana, watching it transform denuded pasture into an acre of wild productivity and refuge.