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In our mediterranean food forest we grow several fig trees. We love eating figs, but did you know that you can actually use the fig leaves too? Fig leaves are edible, tasty, nutritious and medicinal.

Before you start planning and designing your food forest you want to get clarity about the mission, vision and values of your food forest. This way, you’ll make your dream come true quicker and easier…

Mulching is touted to be the panacea for every challenge and need of our garden forests. But in our mediterranean forest – we found that normal mulching doesn’t do it… until we turned to… living mulch.

It’s not just restaurant chefs who can use flowers in cooking. You’d be surprised at how many edible flowers you can find in your own garden. Those are the main mediterranean edible flowers in our food forest…

Problem: When nitrogen is not available plants stop growing.
Solution: Plant lots of nitrogen fixing trees.
These are our favorite mediterranean nitrogen fixing trees…

Although most vegetables are annual, did you know that many wonderful vegetable plants are perennial? Those are the main mediterranean perennial vegetables we grow in our forest garden…

In our Tenerife (Canary Islands) mediterranean food forest, most of our fruit trees and vegetables need pollinators. And pollinators need flowers most months of the year. Those are the main mediterranean bee plants in our forest garden…