Aloha Friends!



In this video, I show you a food forest guild, which is like a unit of plants growing together in the same area, that help each other to thrive and survive. They share soil nutrients, shade, and sun, and importantly for us in the Southwest, they share water and fertilizer.

Guilds are like miniature food forests and are the building blocks of a more extensive food forest.

Easy to get started, they include some of each of the layers of the food forest.

This one features bananas and moringa as the tree layer; pigeon peas as the shrub layer; tomatoes as the vine layer; strawberries, calendula, Okinawan spinach, woodsorrel, self-heal, and wild lettuce as the floor layer; and ginger root as the root layer.

This guild takes up a 22 x 11-foot area (242 square feet), making it a good demonstration of how to grow a variety of foods within a small space.

Everything you see here came from seeds or seedlings that I transplanted here or else voluntarily established here, so it is a low-cost investment in an ongoing stream of fresh food!