Growing Community Food Forests

Join us to learn about our recent publication and training in:
What are Community Food Forests?
Producing more of our food with tree-based agriculture will nourish and heal more people and more land
in a shorter amount of time and with longer-term benefits than we have been able to achieve with conventional
agriculture over the past 150+ years.

Community Food Forests combine and reinvent ancient practices of Agroforestry and Agroecology to
produce food in ways that regenerate human and ecological health. It is estimated that at one
time Earth supported as many as 6 trillion trees, and that number has been reduced by roughly half
since “modern” human civilization emerged over 10,000 years ago and converted land for agriculture and
urbanization. At an estimated net loss averaging 10 billion trees per year due to ongoing deforestation, we are on
track to further reduce that number by half, leaving just 1.5 trillion trees, or one quarter of the natural living
forests that evolved as the lungs of this living Earth.