Front yard food forest, my favorite way to feed my family.

A food forest is landscape design method that uses all the plants work there to work together to grow more food, keep pests away, and attract pollinators and other beneficials to your yard.

A front yard food forest a more approachable way to incorporate some of the design principles of permaculture into your landscape. I love seeing how people create permaculture foodscapes. But I live in the suburbs ( you probably do too), and not on a farm.

So I work in conjunction with traditional landscaping plants ( like evergreens, ornamental flowering bushes etc…) you can add in edible plants and beneficial plants to create an eco system that work together to produce more abundant and pest resistant food. And they still look good!

Adding some blueberry bushes in front, and rhubarb and strawberries into a bed with an azelea or boxwood is an amazing way to add tasty homegrown food to your life.

Perennial edibles are an investment. you are planning for 3-10 years down the road of food production for some plants ( fruit trees, asparagus, artichoke, and a few others). And a bit of an investment in plants. A tomato plant is 5 dollars (or basically free if you grow from seed). A blueberry bush starts at 20 dollars and goes up to 100 ( size dependent).