In the world
Real places. Real growing pains.
Nine places to learn from: community food forests, demonstration gardens and related farms. Borrow their questions before you copy their planting plans. Check current access before visiting.
North America
2Beacon Food Forest
Seattle, Washington
A Seattle commons where food, volunteers and shared rules grow together.
Stewarded by Volunteer community
Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill
Atlanta, Georgia
An Atlanta public food forest connecting perennial growing, neighbourhood participation and food access.
Stewarded by City of Atlanta, Conservation Fund, Trees Atlanta & U.S. Forest Service
Europe
3Martin Crawford & the Agroforestry Research Trust
Dartington, Devon
A long-running Devon forest garden that makes layered growing tangible—and worth looking at closely.
Stewarded by Martin Crawford
Ridgedale Farm
near Västra Ämtervik, Värmland
A Swedish mixed farm where production, business planning and teaching share the same landscape.
Stewarded by Richard Perkins
Wakelyns Agroforestry
Fressingfield, Suffolk
Rows of trees and open crop alleys: a Suffolk farm showing that agroforestry has more than one shape.
Stewarded by The Wolfe family
Latin America
2Ernst Götsch — Syntropic Agriculture
Piraí do Norte, Bahia
A Brazilian agroforestry approach that treats planting, succession and pruning as an ongoing conversation.
Stewarded by Ernst Götsch
Las Cañadas — Bosque de Niebla
Huatusco, Veracruz
A Veracruz cooperative linking agroecology, cloud-forest stewardship and the work of living together.
Stewarded by Las Cañadas cooperative
Oceania
2Geoff Lawton — Zaytuna Farm & Greening the Desert
The Channon, New South Wales (and Jordan)
Two distinct teaching settings: a subtropical Australian farm and a managed dryland demonstration in Jordan.
Stewarded by Nadia and Geoff Lawton and project teams
The Food Forest
Gawler, South Australia
A South Australian farm and learning centre with a long history of experimenting in a Mediterranean climate.
Stewarded by Annemarie & Graham Brookman