1. Food Forest Establishment Presented by Jack Spirko

2. The Forest as Our Teacher Lesson One – The Forest Floor is a Lake

3. The Forrest as Our Teacher Lesson Two – Nature NEVER Monocrops

4. The Forest as Our Teacher Lesson Three – Slower Water Creates More Life

5. The Forrest as Our Teacher Lesson Four – Fungus are the Teeth of the Forest

6. The Forest as Our Teacher Lesson Five – A Forest Grows on a Fallen Forest

7. The Forest as Our Teacher Lesson Six – There are Seven Primary Layers in a Forest

8. Food Forest Establishment with Swales and Chickens

9. Forests Gardens Can be Small One or Two Semi Dwarf Apple (Canopy) Two or Three Dwarf Peaches (Sub Canopy) Several Black Berry and Blueberry Plants (Shrub) 2 Goumi Bushes (Shrub and fixes nitrogen) Mix of herbs, flowers, vegetables can be annual/perennial (Herbaceous) Beans and Cucumbers (Vining layer + Ground Cover + Rhizosphere) Strawberries and sweet potatoes (Ground Cover) Horseradish and comfrey (Herbaceous and Rhizosphere) This System (Guild) Can be installed even is a small yard Could even use a small swale and garden pond Has all seven layers I would establish it along with a mix of buckwheat and cowpea Could be easily established with a chicken tractor, over and over

10. Forests Gardens Can be Small This one is going to be about 12 feet by 40 feet

11. Forests Gardens Can be Small This one is going to be about 8 feet by 24 feet

12. Forests Gardens Can be Small This one is going to be tiny a triangle of only about 9’ x9’ x9’

13. Forests Gardens Can Last 2000 Years in a Desert!

14. What is the Most Important Thing About Potted Trees?

15. The Most Important Thing About Potted Trees

19. Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Planned Productive Trees for My Design All Red Plum Santa Rosa Plum Ozark Plum Burbank Plum Tex. Mission Almond Hall’s Hardy Almond Chinquapin Ayers Pear Leconte Pear Orient Pear Gala Apple Fuji Apple Arkansas Black Apple Honey Crisp Apple Jona Red Apple Prairie Fire Crab Apple Tex. Star Peach Tex. Royal Peach June Gold Peach Sam Houston Peach Choctaw Pecan Tejas Pecan Fuyu Persimmon Eureka Persimmon Chojuro Asian Pear 20 th Century Asian Pear Housi Asian Pear Paw Lang Jujube Li Jujube Minnie Royal Cherry Royal Lee Cherry Beautiful Day Mulberry Sweet Lav. Mulberry

20. Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Choosing Species for Your Food Forest What Grows in a Native Kazakhstan Apple Forest? Pears Apricots Cherries Plums Walnuts Pistachios Mulberries Hawthorne Roses Raspberries Barberries Bilberries Elderberries Silverberries Gooseberries Grapes Currants Hops Onions Cannabis Sorrels Umbels Rhubarbs More Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of www.appleseedpermaculture.comwww.appleseedpermaculture.com

21. Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Trees from Ethan’s List in my Design Pears Cherries Plums Mulberries Analogs to Ethan’ s List Walnuts = Pecans Apricots = Peaches This doesn’t even include, herbs, shrubs, etc. Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of www.appleseedpermaculture.comwww.appleseedpermaculture.com

22. Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Choosing Species for Your Food Forest Trees In My Design Not on Ethan’s List Paw Jujube Chinquapin Persimmon Pears The Lessons Here I didn’t even consider Ethan’s List I still ended up with many of the plants on his list You really can’t screw this up In the end grow what you like Credit for this list to Ethan Roland of www.appleseedpermaculture.comwww.appleseedpermaculture.com

23. Building Soil Below The Ground Building Soil Below The Ground Some Facts About Root And Soil Biomass Fungi can account for as much as 52-54% of total forest biomass Trees generally have root spread from ½ to 5 times that of their canopy Most trees have 90% or more of their feeding roots in 18–24 inches of the soil Juniper trees in New Mexico had some deep roots to 200 feet of depth At the end of its first year’s growth, an an apple tree can produce as many as 17 million root hairs with a total length of well over a mile Root biomass is generally at least equal to above ground bio mass for most plants and trees Credit for this data to http://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdfhttp://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdf

24. Building Soil Below The Ground Building Soil Below The Ground Some Facts About Root And Soil Biomass Fungi can account for as much as 52-54% of total forest biomass Trees generally have root spread from ½ to 5 times that of their canopy Most trees have 90% or more of their feeding roots in 18–24 inches of the soil Juniper trees in New Mexico had some deep roots to 200 feet of depth At the end of its first year’s growth, an an apple tree can produce as many as 17 million root hairs with a total length of well over a mile Root biomass is generally at least equal to above ground bio mass for most plants and trees Credit for this data to http://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdfhttp://www.robertkourik.com/media/FAQ.pdf