The Food Forest

Fruit & Nut Trees

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Growing Fruit & Nuts

Few things in this life give as much satisfaction as picking a beautiful, juicy piece of fruit from your own orchard and... more »
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Sunscreen for Plants

Home gardeners and commercial fruit and vegetable growers have seen disastrous damage done to their crops by heat-waves over recent years. Even plantings with excellent irrigation systems have... more »
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Carob Beans

Carob, Ceratonia siliqua is also called Saint-John's-bread or locust bean.
It grows to about 15 m (50 ft) in height and has dark, evergreen, pinnate leaves. The... more »
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Feijoas

Also known as Pineapple Guava, Guavasteen. Botanical name - Feijoa sellowiana. In more recent times it has been renamed Acca sellowiana.
It is native to extreme southern... more »
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Figs

Known as ‘The tree of life’ by the ancient Egyptians and much enjoyed by Cleopatra and Ulysses, the fig is a wonderful... more »
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Tony Stevens' Fig Collection

Tony Stevens undertook a project in Association with the SA Rare Fruit Society which seeks to establish a register of varieties true to name... more »
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Jujubes

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) is one of the species which will handle salt and the vagaries of weather in southern Australia... better than olives. Known also as... more »
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Olives

Organic growing is when your system emulates nature in its interconnectedness. It tends not to rely on massive amounts of  ‘plant protection’ or highly manufactured fertilizers... more »
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