Use Food Forest Techniques to Grow More in Your Backyard

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today we’re learning how we can grow MORE food with LESS work by using “food forests”. Daron, the founder of Growing With Nature, a website aimed at allowing our living world to come alive with abundance for people, plants and wildlife, is sharing his knowledge for growing food forests, why they’re important, and how to do it no matter what growing zone you're in or where you are in your gardening journey. Grab all the resources mentioned in today’s episode on the blog: melissaknorris.com/296.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Hey pioneers and welcome to episode number 296.
1:30.6	Today's episode is going six.
1:33.6	Today's episode is going to be about how you can grow more food by creating a food forest that requires less work and uses your space wisely.
1:51.2	So the first time I heard the term food forest, I wasn't really sure what people meant by it.
1:57.0	And as I started to learn more about it, it combines permaculture and restoration practices for edible gardening.
2:09.2	So a lot of it is done with a perennial type structure including fruit trees and berry bushes, but it also can incorporate
2:17.3	regular annual vegetables and a lot more edible plants than one would think beyond just your typical fruit trees and
2:26.5	berry bushes so it incorporates them as well.
2:29.8	So I brought in a guest expert today and you guys I am not kidding you I just
2:35.7	got done recording this episode I literally have a page of notes and already
2:41.0	have outlined the plants that I am going to get that I don't currently have to begin
2:46.7	creating my food forest. So I am really excited for this episode. You can do it small scale and you can do it large scale
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