5 Tips To Building Your Dream Food Forest + Touring a 2 Acre Tropical Food Forest - The Reid Farm

Learn how to build your dream food forest with these 5 tips as we tour The Reid Farm in Deland Florida which is a 2 acre tropical fruit food forest paradise. Join this food forest tour as we explore rare fruiting trees such as the Florida native Tice mulberry, Vietnamese pomegrantes, Red Lady papayas, and Blue Java bananas. Along the way, Mr. Lonny Reid of The Reid Farm shares his top 5 expert tips to help you get started building a food forest. These tips have helped him build a 2 acre self sustainable permaculture food forest that produces an abundant harvest year round.

The Reid Farm is a 2 acre demonstration food forest and plant nursery. They host a variety of classes on the subject of building a food forest and provide consulation and installation services.
407-929-2892
2670 San Juan Street,
Deland, Florida 32724

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[jholcomb]

Wow! This was a great, informative video. Thanks!

[growingmyown]

Very informative, New subscriber here from Growing My Own.

[baneverything]

I`m trying in central Louisiana and battling extreme yearly freezes. I hope we get a break this next winter because I started over 15 new fruit trees, asparagus, strawberries and more. Armadillos are a really bad problem too.

[nicholasjay]

Lonnie has a lot of cool stuff. It's almost mango season, too.

[growinginportland]

I’ve implemented some of those tips, but they’re great. I’m two years into creating my food forest in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be doing my first tour video soon on my YouTube channel. Would love to come and visit Florida one day and see this amazing place. Thanks for sharing all my best.

[elizabethj.]

Red lady papaya??i have to look that up, N what type of avocado??

[baneverything]

I bought four Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry trees from Florida this year. They`re growing like crazy. There are a lot of things I wish I had but online prices are just too much on a fixed income. Even seeds are outrageous for tiny amounts. I`m growing Crowder Peas for seeds this year because I paid so much for so few that it isn`t worth eating the harvest and I only got half the number I ordered. It cost me nearly 100 bucks and over two years to get the real dwarf tomato variety I wanted for indoors because of scammers. Who knows what my fig trees really are because chances are they`re just whatever they had access to. I won`t know until they fruit if they`re keepers for my climate or even a variety that`s self pollinating because scammers really enjoy harming home growers.

[TheHybridWizard]

I thought UF classified Mexican sunflower as an invasive? I suppose if you are cutting it back often during growing season it will keep them under control

[gcxredkat]

I'm in St Pete and so frustrated I can't get a papaya to take.

[lisafahrner]

Hi Jerra, Have you ever grown garlic? I have some but I don’t think it’s going to turn out.

[OffGridHawaii]

Great tips! We just uploaded a video, 5 step to manage a food forest.

[bethb]

Jerra I'm wondering how the flavor of the Mysore raspberry was when you tasted it?

[bbdoll]

Can anyone understand what she's saying about the type of raspberry ??? I wish they would spell the words.. this is what I've found work a search for zone 9.
Amity

Autumn Bliss

Autumn Britten

Bababerry

Caroline

Chilliwick

Fallred

Heritage

Killarney

Nantahala

Oregon 1030

Polka

Redwing

Ruby

Summit

Taylor

Tulameen

Yellow Raspberries

Anne

Cascade

Fall Gold

Goldie

Kiwi Gold

Black Raspberries

Blackhawk

Cumberland

Purple Raspberries

Brandy Wine

Royalty

[paulinazajaczkowska]

how do you call the florida native berries ?

[DavidNeal-crkx]

WHY are neither of you growing Moringa for crying out loud??!!!

[sandyrobinette]

I grew morenga and it tastes horrible..