🌳 How do you choose the right food forest plants? | Design your food forest with Louis DJ

Louis De Jaeger believes that everyone can change the world.

Louis is a food forest designer and teacher. His international design bureau Commensalist is based in Brussels, Belgium. With a top team they design (edible) landscape projects across Europe.

With Katrina Sichel as host

Food Forest | Agroforestry | Syntropic | Permaculture | Swales | Voedselbos | Foodforest | Forest Garden | Perennial | Agroecology

[jjbowman]

I heard somewhere that tall trees should be placed closer to water ways to shade them, what are your thoughts on this for all season climates?

[lauralee]

well actually number one consideration is soil type and rainfall or lack of it - prevailing winds come from multiple directions - do your credentials reveal what you produced so far ? what you are describing here is a single concept that may suit some locations but not all locations =