Welcome, on this page you’ll find a food forest establishment protocol that’s specifically developed for a scenario where you want a food forest with swales and plant everything in the SPRING.

The protocol consists of eight tasks executed in this order: 1) Plan the food forest, 2) Define a layout, 3) Site clearing, 4) Test the soil, 5) Site survey, 6) Install swales, 7) Bare root planting, and 8) Mulching.

All these steps are squeezed into a timeframe from winter to, at latest, late spring as there is a definite deadline when you can plant bare-root trees, put down some mulch to smother weeds after you exposed the soil, and when you can last sow cover crops before the heat of the summer kicks in.