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Articles tagged with "food-forest"

Pencil-crayon illustration of a mature backyard food forest canopy with apple, walnut, and chestnut trees against a warm summer sky
2 Jun

Food Forest Canopy Trees: Choosing Your Overstory

Peter Vogel
Pencil-crayon illustration of a mature 10-year-old backyard food forest with apple trees, hazelnut shrubs, blueberries, strawberries, and a wooden bench in summer
2 Jun

When Does a Food Forest Start Producing? Realistic Timelines

Peter Vogel
Pencil-crayon illustration of a snowy New England food forest in early spring with multilayered fruit trees and shrubs, snow melting around trunks, evergreen pines in the background
28 May

Food Forest in Zone 5: Cold-Hardy Species and Design

Peter Vogel
Urban backyard food forest with grape pergola, hardy kiwi fence, pole bean teepee, akebia arbor, and a small apple tree against a brick wall
27 May

Food Forest Vines: The Vertical Layer

Peter Vogel
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