Our Story
Making growing food at home easy, fun, and delicious.
Gardening is a family affair.
Our Story …
Growing food is what makes me happy. It’s part science, part art, and helps the planet! Plus, I like good food. That’s why I became a gardener. And why I think everyone can make their yard a place to grow food.
Acton Food Forest started as is an educational small-scale residential food forest in Acton Massachusetts and now offers edible landscape consulting and is a food and kitchen garden design studio serving Boston Metro West.
We at Acton Food Forest have been working toward making everyone’s home a sustainable ecosystem for their families and the land they share. Every year we challenge our family to grow more food, help more pollinators, and waste less. Bit by bit we help make our footprint smaller. It doesn’t take 100 people with homesteads to make an impact globally, it takes a million people making steps every to live sustainably. Small steps can make a big impact if enough people make them. Projects like one more bed for lettuce, or a couple berry bushes every year adds up over time to a whole lot of food grown at home.
A little bit about Jess…
Jessica Robison, Founder of Acton Food Forest
Jessica Robison has been gardening for almost 15 years and is pretty plant obsessed. She has a BFA in graphic design from Pratt Institute (but some how managed to take all her electives in plant morphology and scientific illustration) and a 15 year career in user experience design.
But helping others learn to grow food and live a little “more green” is why I started acton food forest. I now offer services that will allow others to learn to garden, advice to get started, or someone to come in and do all the dirty work so you can enjoy a basket of veggies all summer or a stroll through your kitchen garden to pick some strawberries. I want to take the stress of getting started away from others so the world can grow more of their own. Do it with help no matter if that’s a plan to DIY or having part or all of the design, build, and maintenance taken care of.
