Forest gardening is a low-maintenance, sustainable, plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.
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Forest gardening is a prehistoric method of securing food in tropical areas.
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Forest gardening gardens are probably the world's oldest form of land use and most resilient agroecosystem.
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Forest gardening gardens have been shown to be a significant source of income and food security for local populations.
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Forest gardening's theories were later developed by Martin Crawford from the Agroforestry Research Trust and various permaculturalists such as Graham Bell, Patrick Whitefield, Dave Jacke and Geoff Lawton.
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Forest gardening used intercropping to develop an existing small orchard of apples and pears into an edible polyculture landscape consisting of the following layers:.
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Today, his business and the 2005 book Edible Forest gardening Gardens have spawned little "edible forests" all over the world.
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Forest gardening gardens have been loosely compared to the religious concept of the Garden of Eden.
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In North Africa, oasis-layered gardening with palm trees, fruit trees, and vegetables is a traditional type of forest garden.
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Forest gardening developed a three acre food forest that at maturity provided raw materials for a plant nursery and herbal business as well as food for his family.
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