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25.01.2022 A true wonder tree!!!

25.01.2022 food forest living web by molly danielsson https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5/9548783623_4fed54934d_b.jpg Courtesy of Carlene Kidwell

23.01.2022 Shiso, Yakon and the most beautiful Aibika cultivar in the universe!!!

23.01.2022 This is the most effective method of Turmeric use for utilising its potent healing properties!!!

22.01.2022 Greetings all We created this page some years ago as an educational portal and networking hub and for various reasons, our content has been limited for some time now. Considering the events that have been unfolding in recent months, it is now pretty evident that this information is more crucial than ever. As governments world wide have acted to restrict movement and social gatherings including public dining, and food supply chains have taken a big hit, and as health polic...ies move us further towards big pharma and mandatory vaccines, its important that people everywhere act to revitalize local communities and local food production systems, set up autonomous renewable power infrastructure and return to natural herbal healthcare and the ways of ancestral wisdom. Moving from more dependent living systems and economies like nuclear-family rentals and government benefits in favour of collective land ownership/stewardship and collaborative enterprise will also assist us to move from a position of dependency and vulnerability to one of community/collective strength. Taking these steps toward self-determination and grassroots autonomy will help us greatly to limit the immediate effects of any increased government control measures and restrictions on society as a whole. In our view, at the heart of all of this, should be a network of perennial resource forests, with not only a comprehensive range of food plants, but also other useful plants for medicine, fuel/energy, textiles and building/shelter. Such a network would not only provide these resources to those communities around them, but also abundant propagation material to be shared to further extend the network. As our commitment to this vision, we will now be stepping up our activity through this portal, and anyone is welcome to contact us on the mobile and email details provided. Blessings, stay safe, and have a great day See more

21.01.2022 An epic demonstration Farm.....

20.01.2022 Yay for the 3 sisters!!!!

20.01.2022 ...are doing the Indigenous Kulin Food and Plant Medicine Walk at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.... Exploring Lore in cooler climes!!! Blessings :)

19.01.2022 You can fit a lot into 2 acres....#everyblockmakesadifference

18.01.2022 Interesting read... http://www.konakavafarm.com//traditional-uses-of-kava-lea/

17.01.2022 So glad we managed to track this down again!!!!

16.01.2022 A great food forest cash crop for the tropics and subtropics... ( turmeric is another one )

16.01.2022 https://heated.medium.com/what-if-were-thinking-about-agric

16.01.2022 The way forward with food production is permanent perennial polyculture systems of great variety with fruits, nuts, tubers, greens, legumes, fungi and herbs all co-existing in dynamic symbiotic equilibrium. Ideally such food forests would have all known local native edible and medicinal species represented. Such systems of forest farming evolved from hunter gathering in non-civilized, usually forest dwelling human populations, with civilisation usually being associated with... mass monoculture grain growing and large scale deforestation. As I know only too well, from my own experience, forest farming attracts many types of wildlife because, of course, whats good food for us is good food for many other creatures, and many cultures take advantage of this fact to make their hunting easier. Jungle peoples often have many such forest gardens at different altitudes and seasonally move between them, eating the fruits and animals so attracted. I believe the Paleolithic diet consisted of mostly fruits, nuts, starchy tubers, green herbs and smaller animals such as insects, reptiles, birds, fish and smaller mammals (and in this continent, Australia, marsupials ) And the consumption of larger animals was much less frequent. Heres an interesting article about the development of modern bananas... http://www.nature.com//jo/v488/n7410/full/nature11241.html The wild seedy Musa acuminata which I had in my food forest in NZ were really interesting. Still sweet and enjoyable when ripe but not overly so like cavendish but able to be used for starch either as flour or cooked like a plantain. See more

15.01.2022 Food Forests for Food Autonomy in collaboration with Tropical Roots forming ~ ** The Food Forest Family ** ~ presents BOTANICAL BASICS: EASY Gardening & FOOD FORESTRY: Organic Activation Days! 5 days to go with limited spaces. Email [email protected] to secure your place. NOT TO BE MISSED!

13.01.2022 Functional random landscape art....

13.01.2022 Fun fact: those insect-eaten holey kale leaves (or any other leafy green) are actually better for you then their unassaulted counterparts!! Okay, so we all kno...w that Im a plant phytochemical nerd. I believe that one of the keys to health is consuming lots of them (which means eating lots of veggies, but also seeking out those veggies that have a higher density of phytochemicals, like wild plants and like local organic produce grown in high quality soil). So, when one of my local farmers mentioned this fun fact to me today, I just had to look it up! And its true! Plants are smarter than we think! They actually Leaves normally release small quantities of a class of phytochemical called "plant volatiles". While the name sounds a little intimidating, plant volatiles are known to have very strong anti-cancer and antioxidant properties--meaning, its improves health to eat them (this is one of the classes of compounds in plants credited with the ubiquitous health benefits of high-veggie diets). When a leaf is damaged by herbivorous insects (yes, insects can be herbivores, carnivores or omnivores too!), many more plant volatiles are released. Exactly which plant volatiles are produced varies both by the plant species and by the species of thats eating it. Why does the plant do this? These volatiles attract both parasitic and predatory insects that are natural enemies of the herbivore insects eating the plant--meaning, its the plants way of recruiting help defending itself. The plant attracts other insects that like to eat the insects that are eating it. Isnt that amazing?! These plant volatiles can even signal to neighboring plants to increase their defense responses too! So, woohoo to plants for having such a sophisticated defense strategy. But, even better for us? This means that were getting more antioxidant goodness when we eat those organically-grown leafy greens that have some insect holes in them--you know, the same ones no one else wants to buy so your farmer sells them to you on the cheap?!?! It also means we dont need to get quite so worked up about aphids eating up our vegetable gardens--theyre doing us a favor! This is also why strategies like crushing garlic 10 minutes before you add it to whatever youre cooking increases the antioxidant properties. And thanks to Fry Farm for sharing this fun fact with me!

13.01.2022 A great resource for food forest design!!!

11.01.2022 Dabai fruit from Sarawak... A super-nutritious fruit and nut for the tropical food forest!!! Thanks to Erin Eaglefeather for the heads up....wed never heard of it though we know its relative, the Pili Nut. http://www.itfnet.org//the-dabai-story-experience-in-comm/

10.01.2022 Such an inspiring story! From pesticide scientist to permaculture legend!!! Transformation!!!

06.01.2022 All this achieved in just 6 years!!!!

04.01.2022 Some great weed wisdom

04.01.2022 Check out the link to the 2000 year old Moroccan food forest in this post....

03.01.2022 Food forests can be incredibly abundant....even in a cold temperate climate!!!!

03.01.2022 This plant is awesome, even when the bandicoots an d rats DO eat all the tubers hehehe