Reading Time: 4 minutesLet’s say you have a wooded property and want to grow food in the woods. However, you want to do it in a way that preserves as much of the forest as possible. I.e you want to minimize clearing and cutting down the trees but still be able to grow food. Is growing food in […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesLet’s say you’ve designed your fruit tree guilds, and now it’s time to plant them on the site. The question is: how should you go about it? In the ideal world, you’d plant your entire food forest in one go – trees, shrubs, ground covers, the whole things. But let’s be real. Between the cost […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesStory time… When I worked as a geologist in Australia in the 2010s, I frequently traveled across the country. On one occasion, while driving through the mountainous agricultural area of New South Wales, we unexpectedly encountered a person wearing a hazmat suit on the side of the road. At first, I thought that the whole […]