Imagine harvesting fruit, herbs, edible flowers and unusual flavours from a garden that is every bit as beautiful as a traditional ornamental border. Our food forests combine productive planting with professional garden design, creating gardens that look stunning while producing food year after year.
Think of it as a beautiful garden that just happens to produce an abundance of fruit, herbs, edible flowers and unusual flavours throughout the year.
Think of it as a beautiful garden that just happens to produce an abundance of fruit, herbs, edible flowers and unusual flavours throughout the year.
What is a Food Forest?
A Food Forest is our way of describing the unique combination of methods we use to create ornamental, edible gardens. We use conventional planting design theory in addition to edible forest gardening to create beautiful food forests. Taking care to ensure balance, continuity and to include harmonious forms and colours, as well as producing lots of sustainably produced, organic food!
Why Plant a Food Forest?✓ Beautiful ornamental planting ✓ Harvest fruit, herbs and edible flowers ✓ Supports pollinators and wildlife ✓ Low maintenance once established ✓ Produces food year after year Food forests combine beautiful ornamental planting with edible crops, creating gardens that are productive, wildlife-friendly and surprisingly low maintenance. 
We are proud members and supporters of Edible Fowey, a community group planting food forests around Fowey for all to enjoy!
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What Can You Grow in CornwallCornwall's mild climate allows a surprising range of fruits, vegetables and herbs to thrive year after year, providing harvests with far less work than traditional annual vegetable gardens, such as:
and much more! 
Allium nutans a beautiful edible allium with edible leaves and flowers.
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Ficus 'Brunswick' figs ripening well in the Edible Forest Garden in Newquay.
Growing Food the Easy Way
Apples from the Edible Fowey Food Forest.
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Pineapple Guava, Acca sellowiana 'Mammoth' flower. The pineapple guava produces edible marshmallow flavoured flowers followed by edible egg-sized fruits. All on hardy ornamental evergreen shrubs.
Red and white alpine strawberries, used as ground-cover in a woodland themed Edible Landscape.
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Low Maintenance Edible Ecosystems
A Food Forest is designed to:
What makes our Food Forests unique is that this concept is scaled down appropriately for a domestic or public space setting. Then, combined with conventional, ornamental garden design theory. Using his combination of methods results in garden-sized Food Forest ecosystems, that to the untrained eye look just like any ornamental garden, the twist being that everything you see is edible. A Food Forest is also low maintenance once established. |
Diagram explaining the different layers and roles for plants in a Food Forest or Edible Landscape. The examples above are suitable for a frost free garden. Note: 'Root layer' is not included to prevent soil disruption
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Food for Thought...
Edible Landscaping in domestic gardens, greenspaces and community plots may have wider potential... With access to Edible Landscaping and Food Forests, communities could potentially have access to a free food source and therefore control over a portion of their food supply.
If Edible Landscaping can provide just 5% of a communities food supply this could prove invaluable in times of emergency. The recent pandemic has exposed the fragility of our current food system, it only takes a bit of panic from the public to cause food shortages. Edible Landscapes in our gardens and greenspaces could alleviate our dependency on global supply chains which could help to provide more piece of mind and security in times of uncertainty.
If Edible Landscaping can provide just 5% of a communities food supply this could prove invaluable in times of emergency. The recent pandemic has exposed the fragility of our current food system, it only takes a bit of panic from the public to cause food shortages. Edible Landscapes in our gardens and greenspaces could alleviate our dependency on global supply chains which could help to provide more piece of mind and security in times of uncertainty.
