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Young US homestead food forest at year two with staked fruit trees, currant bushes, herb spiral, comfrey, and ground covers with a homeowner holding a small wooden seed-money box
26 May

Food Forest Cost: What to Budget for Year 1 Through Year 5

Peter Vogel
Thriving temperate food forest with apple and pear trees, elderberry and serviceberry, currant and gooseberry, comfrey and rhubarb in late summer
22 May

Temperate Food Forest: Cold-Climate Edible Ecosystems

Peter Vogel
Lush homestead food forest with young apple tree, elderberry, echinacea, calendula and comfrey in early summer
21 May

Medicinal Plants in Food Forests: Grow Your Own Pharmacy

Peter Vogel
Split-scene comparison of a traditional commercial apple orchard versus a multi-strata food forest
20 May

Food Forest vs Traditional Orchard: Why Diversity Wins

Peter Vogel
A mature homestead nut tree food forest in late summer with chestnut trees in the canopy laden with spiny burs, hazelnut shrubs at the edge, pecan at the back, and a basket of harvested chestnuts and hazelnuts in the foreground
15 May

Nut Trees for Food Forests: Long-Term Calorie Production

Peter Vogel
Thriving multi-layer permaculture food forest in early summer with fruit trees, shrubs, herbs and groundcover, gardener with pruning shears and mulch wheelbarrow
13 May

Food Forest Maintenance: What to Do Each Season

Peter Vogel
Permaculture food forest with mature black locust in white bloom, alder, Siberian pea shrub, and fruit trees behind in pencil-crayon illustration
13 May

Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for Food Forests

Peter Vogel
A lush tropical food forest with coconut palm canopy, mango and banana sub-canopy, papaya and pineapple, taro and sweet potato vines at ground level
11 May

Tropical Food Forest: Design for Warm Climates

Peter Vogel
Lush food forest floor with dense ground cover of white clover, alpine strawberries, creeping thyme, comfrey, and yarrow under dappled sunlight
11 May

Ground Cover Plants for Food Forests: The Living Mulch Layer

Peter Vogel