Build Your Food Forest

Let us create your permaculture food forest and dream garden.

Our Process

Designing a food forest plan

Step 1: Get Ideas

Attend a 60-minute consultation with permaculture consultant, Chris Lutz. Call 863-862-3578 to schedule an appointment.

Step 2: Design

Choose plants and permaculture elements based on your goals and land size. Purchase a food forest landscape blueprint.

Step 3: Install

Purchase plants to install yourself or get professional or community installation help from our food forest network.

Recommendations

We’ll help you choose the right plants and agricultural elements for your food forest design.

Recommended Permaculture Elements

Consider including the following elements in your design plan:

  • Cold compost area
  • Herb/Medicinal bed or spiral
  • Orchard
  • Biochar
  • Banana circle
  • Island
  • Hedges (E.g., Pineapple guava)
  • Windbreak (E.g., Bamboo)
  • Vineyard and other vine trellising
  • Vertical planters, trellises, or living walls
  • Fruit tree guild (suppressors, attractors, repellers, mulchers, accumulators, and fixers)
  • Pollinator bed
  • Kitchen garden
  • Hugelkulture
  • Swales
  • Syntropic rows
  • Agroforestry area
  • Raised beds
  • Methane biogas
  • Energy production
  • Vermicompost
  • Animal integrations
  • Victory/survival garden
  • Green mulch
  • Bee Apiary
  • Aquaculture
  • Water catchment
  • Irrigation
  • Greenhouse/tunnel
  • Solar/wind
  • Biogas
  • Grey tater treatment/reuse
  • Humanure
  • Reed bed
  • Florida weave tomatoes
  • Others desired custom elements

Recommended Plants

We recommend and provide the following plants:

  • Moringa Oleifera PKM1
  • Citrus (Satsuma, Kumquat, Navel, Hamlin, Tangelo, Grapefruit, Meyer Lemon)
  • Anna & Dorsett Gold Apple Trees
  • Cranberry Hibiscus
  • Malanga
  • Taro
  • Blackberry & Raspberry
  • Florida Cranberry (Roselle)
  • Seminole Pumpkin
  • Longevity Spinach
  • Okinawan Spinach
  • Malabar Spinach
  • Basil
  • Culantro
  • Ginger
  • Turmeric
  • Peppers (Sweet, Ghost, Carolina Reaper, FL Grove)
  • Florida Broadleaf Mustard
  • Beans (Cow Peas, Pinto, Black)
  • Loquat Tree
  • Avocado Tree (Fantastic, Del Rio, Pryor, Brogdon)
  • Passion Fruit Vine
  • Blueberry (Rabbiteye or Southern Highbush)
  • Banana (Cavendish, Grand Nain, Orinoco, Namwa, Double Mahoi. Cold hardy: Mekong Giant, Musa Basjoo)
  • Fig Tree (Celeste, Chicago Hardy)
  • Barbados Cherry (Acerola)
  • Surinam Cherry
  • Red Mulberry
  • Aloe Vera
  • Chaya
  • Cassava
  • Lemon Grass
  • Pomegranate Tree (Wonderful, Red Lady)
  • Pineapple Guava
  • Strawberry/Cattley Guava
  • Pineapple
  • Mint
  • Peach Tree (Florida Glo, Florida Prince, UF Best, UF Gem)
  • Goji Berry
  • Sweet Potato Slips (Orange & purple variety, Japanese)
  • Beautyberry
  • Everglades & Floradade Tomato
  • Sunflowers (Mexican [for mulch])
  • Chayote Squash
  • Native Persimmon (Diospyros Virginiana)
  • Strawberries (Sensation, Brilliance, Medallion)
  • Olive Tree (Arbequina, Manzanillo)
  • Pecan Tree (Curtis, Elliott, Excel, Lakota, Sumner)
  • Chickasaw & Flatwoods Plum
  • Tree Collards
  • Sorghum
  • Amaranth
  • Muscadine Grape Vine
  • Elderberry Tree
  • Sugar Cane
  • Pigeon Pea
  • Dioscorea Yams (Name, Alata)
  • Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Jaboticaba
  • Papaya
  • Other desired plants

Get Started

Call 863-862-3578 to schedule your design consultation.