The basic idea of a food forest system is that we design how we grow food based on natural forest principles & relationships. In other words, we copy the way elements in a forest co-exists. Forests don’t need to be fertilised by us, watered by us, weeded by us, or [...] Read more »

Root Stock Seed Storage & Stratification QUESTION: How do I store fruit seed for root stocks? I happened to find a huge box of relatively local organic pears from Creston, and want to save the seed for possible root stock. How should I best store them until spring? In a [...] Read more »

Overwintering Seedlings in Pots QUESTION: We’re buying 100x hazel seedlings from the University of Saskatchewan Fruit Research Department this spring! Yippee! We’d like to put them in nursery pots for a year until we have a proper permaculture design done for the food forest & field. What do you recommend [...] Read more »