--- title: GrowPerma Blog | Food Forest description: Food Forest | --- [Skip to content](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest#main-content) [![GrowPerma](https://growperma.com/hubfs/icon-512.png)](https://growperma.com/) - [Blog](https://growperma.com/blog) - [About](https://growperma.com/about) [Join the Weekly Dig](https://growperma.com/newsletter) - [Blog](https://growperma.com/blog) - [About](https://growperma.com/about) [Join the Weekly Dig](https://growperma.com/newsletter) # Food Forest Articles tagged with "food-forest" [All](https://growperma.com/blog/all) [Soil & Composting](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/soil-composting) [Companion Planting](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/companion-planting) [Permaculture Foundations](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/permaculture-foundations) [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) [Syntropic Agriculture](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/syntropic-agriculture) [Permaculture Around the World](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/permaculture-around-the-world) ![Mature jujube tree in early autumn on a dry homestead, branches heavy with reddish-brown date-like fruit above cracked ground and a split-rail fence](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0551-hero-jujube-tree-20260908-072905.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0551-hero-jujube-tree-20260908-072905.webp) 8 Sep [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Jujube Trees: The Fruit That Thrives on Neglect Peter Vogel ![Mature multi-stemmed serviceberry tree loaded with purple-blue berries in a backyard food forest with a cedar waxwing perched among the fruit](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0537-hero-serviceberry-tree-20260907-124311.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0537-hero-serviceberry-tree-20260907-124311.webp) 7 Sep [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Serviceberry: The Native Fruit Tree Nobody Harvests Peter Vogel ![Tall stand of flowering sunchoke plants along a homestead fence in early October with a crate of freshly dug knobby tubers in front](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0529-hero-20260903-064439.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0529-hero-20260903-064439.webp) 3 Sep [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes): How to Grow, Harvest and Keep Them in Bounds Peter Vogel ![Home orchardist making a pruning cut on a bare apple tree with loppers on a frosty late-winter morning](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp0510-hero-20260831-063453.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp0510-hero-20260831-063453.webp) 31 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## When to Prune Fruit Trees, by Species and Climate Zone Peter Vogel ![Bundle of dormant bare root fruit trees on damp burlap beside a freshly dug planting hole in a late autumn garden](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp0508-hero-20260828-072257.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp0508-hero-20260828-072257.webp) 28 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Bare Root Fruit Trees: Timing, Planting and First-Year Care Peter Vogel ![Kitchen table seed stratification setup with labelled bags of damp sand, tree and wildflower seed, and a refrigerator behind](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0482-hero-seed-stratification-20260824-080351.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0482-hero-seed-stratification-20260824-080351.webp) 24 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Seed Stratification: How to Cold-Treat Seeds That Refuse to Sprout Peter Vogel ![Mixed native hedgerow in late spring along a property boundary with flowering elderberry and serviceberry, bees and a songbird](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0481-hero-hedgerow-planting-20260824-075141.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0481-hero-hedgerow-planting-20260824-075141.webp) 24 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## How to Plant a Hedgerow: A Living Boundary for Food and Wildlife Peter Vogel ![A living willow fence along a garden boundary, freshly planted rods woven into a diagonal lattice and tied at the crossings with new leaves breaking](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0480-hero-20260821-072441.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0480-hero-20260821-072441.webp) 21 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Living Fence: How to Grow a Boundary That Grows Back Peter Vogel ![A row of pollarded willow trees in late winter, each with a knobbly trunk topped by a knuckle sending up dozens of slender new shoots](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0476-hero-20260821-063417.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0476-hero-20260821-063417.webp) 21 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## Pollarding: How to Cut a Tree and Keep It Coming Back Peter Vogel ![Pencil-crayon illustration of a coppiced hazel stool with young straight shoots, cut poles, and a billhook in a woodland clearing](https://growperma.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/gp-0467-hero-coppiced-hazel-stool-20260819-071240.webp?width=400&height=220&name=gp-0467-hero-coppiced-hazel-stool-20260819-071240.webp) 19 Aug [Food Forest](https://growperma.com/blog/tag/food-forest) ## 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