How I designed my permaculture food forest: A step by step guide

Thank you so much for all your kind words, stories, shares, and encouragement 💛 Your support and gratitude means so much to me 🧡 I'm going through comments and coming up with answers to your great questions, which I'll answer in upcoming videos! In the meantime, I've added chapters to this video so you can more easily refer back to sections as you need them. See you soon ✨

why? it makes sense. as a teen in the seventies, read mother earth news...married young, three sons later, no decent money, had trouble pulling together dinners...kids in school went to work, rushed home no energy to do more. fast forward, kids grown and worked more hours than did before, ridiculous cycle, widowed and married again, couldn't slow down still and stress was high. asking what did I want to do I never did. live as close to the land as possible. retired 2019, bought 13 acres and had a tiny cabin built and a greenhouse and off grid solar and said I am done. I do not work a job. I am a senior. I garden and preserve. I try to fine ways to do with less and minimal lifestyle is perfect. I am at peace finally. why not?

We've also been too fast on putting in the fruit trees and not nearly enough support species. Your food forest looks great. We don't bother with all the planning, instead we take a really anarchistic, iterative approach, by planting lots of things and then slashing down the losers and feeding them to the winners later.

Suggestion: When drawing over your basemap, you can use multiple layers of tracing paper, each with sketches and notes on a different topic, so you can be as detailed as you wish without getting confusing or messy. Then you can overlay them as needed to check on how they interact.

Observing nature and imitating it is the way to sustain and propagate life. All our ancestors knew this and followed this. We unlearned this but now we are slowly awakening up to it once more. 😊

Best video on the subject. Got entire parmaculture basics covered in 20 minutes. What an awesome job!!!

I am blown away by how well crafted this video is. Thank you for the effort you put into it!

My Why is creating a healthy, balanced food source for me and my connections + regenerative and supportive biodiversity practices to create a sustainable loop. Working within - not against.

More info on designing with swales and berms would be much appreciated 😊

I’m Mexico my mom had a forest garden, she had a pipe connecting the water from the sink, shower, and washing machine directed towards her plants, they thrived even with soapy elements.

Its taken me almost 5 years to get my rented house's garden to feel like its finally becoming lucious.. Which is a shame because we move in 3 months to our much more perminant home and I start my journey again. I am so excited to take all my failures with me and build bigger and better than ever! (it took 5 years due to very poor soil and very overgrown evergreens)

I’m a trained permaculture gardener and do that for a living. Excellent video

This video connected with me so deeply that I am in tears. I am working hard and saving money for this dream. ❤

I want a beautiful garden, healthy soils, and plenty of food for my family and our chickens. I also want a haven for the native birds.

Will have to rewatch while I take notes! Great video!

I love the idea of consorteums!

Thank you for this precious video, dear. Being in the process of creating a food forest right now it was a treat to experience everything in a time lapse. Keep on going, you've got it all.

Don’t really have a comment just want to throw a shout out for the YT algorithm and help get this out to more people so that more people follow your lead! Keep up this awesome work!

I am shocked how well put together this video is. Your guide shows how scientific your thinking process is while maintaining a deep almost spiritual connection and love for a thoughtful and cooperative relationship with the land. Thank you for sharing that with us.

Very inspiring. It’s my dream too