- This is a great resource for choosing plants for a food forest garden in the Philadelphia area. TCPermaculture Plant Index
- From the same website, here’s a great description of what a food forest is.
- Here’s another amazing resource with all kinds of information on food forests and how to create them (concepts, plant choice, etc): http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/food-forest/
- Another great resource that I’ve found is PhigBlog.com, which is the blog for the Philadelphia Orchard Project. There are several great posts about the top 5 berry bushes, and top 5 fruit trees for the Philadelphia region. Check it out! PhigBlog.com
- Here’s some photos of a food forest garden that was installed in 2013-2014 in Fairmount Park near the Shofuso Japanese House.
Philly Permaculture 
I was hoping to start something like this to just basically like guerilla farm in abandoned parks or lots with permaculture designs like swales on contour and using huglekultur i believe its called and so many other things. So instead of trying to start from scratch how do i get my feet wet and start doing this? Im have alot of ideas and things we can implement to help the community. Id love to hear back from you shortly
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Try to find local groups doing urban farm work that have volunteer opportunities. The best way to learn is to volunteer with a group doing similar things!
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Fair Amount Food Forest (FAFF) is a initiative for public food forestry in Philadelphia that aims to create an educational, openly harvested, and community driven food forest on public land.
Join FAFF and Friends for a gathering behind Lemon Hill Mansion today! to find out more, make some art and celebrate the inter-dependence with us! July 2nd, 1pm ’till 4pm++.
This event is a collaboration with Philadelphia Assembled and part of the Mobile Futures Institute Programming
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