Talk about food forests seem to be of growing interest this month as more people suddenly get excited about the possibilities of designing natural systems on their land that mimics how nature likes to build it’s forests. But with a slight twist. Adding a variety of fruit trees into the...

One of the extras on Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest DVD features him touring a  300 Year old forest system located in Vietnam. This system had stayed in the family for countless generations. Since we put this little clip up on YouTube its always been well viewed, but on New...

Weeds are one of the most despised plants on the planet. People go to many lengths to eradicate weeds from the garden. Judging by the number of herbicides you can buy – its obviously a great money spinner for the chemical companies. But if you speak with Geoff Lawton a Permaculture...

Peter Andrews the creator of Natural Sequence Farming talks to us about the role of weeds in a natural system. Sitting down on a stump with sprig of Patterson’s curse – a noxious weed – proudly tucked into his top pocket, Peter reckons the authorities have got it all wrong....

                Mineralizing your farm soil is something many permaculturalists like to do frequently. Various minerals are mixed with a pollard and fed to the farm animals. The manure that the animals produce is gathered and returned to the garden once...

Walking through a Food Forest can be bewildering experience at first as you try to understand all the design features inherent in Nature. The canopy and diversity of the forest in its complexity can be hard to comprehend at first. Geoff Lawton once remarked that he felt many of his...

When filming Geoff Lawton’s “Food Forest” DVD we went to film a forest system that had been abandoned for about 10 years at Tagari in Northern NSW Australia. Originally designed by Permaculture founder Bill Mollison, Tagari was a transformed dairy farm that under Geoff...

Whilst we were filming the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he mentioned to us casually that he had a number of slides he'd taken many years ago of a Food Forest system he discovered was 2,000 years old. He discovered this system when he was a young man surfing in Morocco but walking through such a majestic system as this one, haunted him for many years as he thought about its potential.

Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden. We start with a 20 minute Permaculture Classroom as Geoff explains the...