What if your landscape could look good, support wildlife, improve your soil, and put food on the table?

In this episode of The Compost Pile, David and Aaron break down the concept of a food forest and how you can use the principles behind one in an average home landscape.

A food forest is designed to mimic the way plants grow together in nature by creating layers of trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, groundcovers, and other useful plants. Instead of filling a landscape with plants chosen only for appearance, you can intentionally incorporate fruit trees, berries, perennial herbs, vegetables, pollinator plants, living groundcovers, and more.

We discuss:

• What a food forest actually is
• How food forests differ from traditional gardens and landscapi ...