In the world
Food forests, growing now
These are real places you could visit — public commons, research gardens, and regenerated rainforests. Proof that a forest you can eat is not a fantasy, but a harvest.
North America
2Beacon Food Forest
Seattle, Washington
A pioneering public food forest on Seattle's Beacon Hill, where anyone can wander in and harvest for free.
Stewarded by Volunteer community
Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest free public food forest in the United States, growing food access into a low-access Atlanta neighbourhood.
Stewarded by City of Atlanta, Conservation Fund, Trees Atlanta & U.S. Forest Service
Europe
3Martin Crawford & the Agroforestry Research Trust
Dartington, Devon
The two-acre demonstration forest garden that taught a generation how temperate food forests really work.
Stewarded by Martin Crawford
Ridgedale Farm
near Vindeln, central Sweden
A cold-climate regenerative farm proving small can be profitable, even on a short northern season.
Stewarded by Richard Perkins
Wakelyns Agroforestry
Fressingfield, Suffolk
A pioneering alley-cropping farm where long rows of trees shelter wheat, squash, and lentils between them.
Stewarded by The Wolfe family
Latin America
2Ernst Götsch — Syntropic Agriculture
Piraí do Norte, Bahia
The Swiss-born farmer who regrew a rainforest — and its springs — by farming the way a forest grows.
Stewarded by Ernst Götsch
Las Cañadas — Bosque de Niebla
Huatusco, Veracruz
A cooperative agroecology centre guarding one of Mexico's last cloud forests while feeding its community.
Stewarded by Las Cañadas cooperative
Oceania
2Geoff Lawton — Zaytuna Farm & Greening the Desert
The Channon, New South Wales (and Jordan)
The permaculture teacher who made the desert bloom with nothing but earthworks, mulch, and water harvesting.
Stewarded by Geoff Lawton
The Food Forest
Gawler, South Australia
A 37-acre organic permaculture farm and school growing 160+ crops on the dry edge of Adelaide.
Stewarded by Annemarie & Graham Brookman