Get to know the faces behind the food forest movement. On our participants page, you'll find all the members of Food from the Forest - from pioneering food forest owners to enthusiastic volunteers. Find out who's participating, find who you're looking for and help build the movement. 

Have a question about pruning, or want to share an event? The message board features new posts daily. Members help each other with tips, share experiences and announce activities. 

Members and participants may post bulletin board messages and may respond to others' messages.

Become a member to join the conversation. 

We want to create and collect as many quality knowledge articles as possible to share. The knowledge articles cover a variety of topics from regulations to health.

Most of the knowledge is available to everyone. For some articles, we ask you to become a member.

Do you want to measure how well your food forest is (already) doing in terms of biodiversity, for example, or how much CO2 is being stored in it? Or do you want to know how much your forest yields economically?

Together with researchers at Wageningen University, we have developed a tool to monitor your food forest. The tool is set up in such a way that you can compare your forest with other food forests of the same age and soil type. This data is shared via an Open Data source with any researcher who wants to look into it. So while measuring, you are actively contributing to the global growth of knowledge about food forests!

Stichting Voedselbosbouw has developed four food forest themes, namely Experience, Biodiversity, Gastronomy and Production. You can think of a theme as the basis by which you will design and set up the food forest.

For each topic we provide more information and offer plant lists and harvest calculations as downloads. Below that again, you can interactively make a calculation for your own country. To do this, create an account on this site or log in with the account you already have.

Several factors play a role in designing a food forest. The theme you want to get started with is an important one but also the soil type and water levels of the plot have a big influence on the plant list, for example.

So if you want to make your land more biodiverse but don't know where to start, check out the food forest recipes. Here you will find six recognizable landscapes and all the inspiration you need including an instructional video on how to use the tool.

How to make a solid budget for a food forest.

To help you do this, we have developed a budgeting tool that you can request for free and get started on your own.

The page has more explanation and a short instructional video.

Transparency and research are important to us. We share all the data we collect through monitoring (anonymized) through an open data source. This way everyone - from scientists to policy makers - can watch and learn from the results.

Thanks to this open data, together we are building evidence of the impact of food forests on biodiversity, climate and harvest. Anyone can access and use the data, further professionalizing the food forest movement.