Creating resilient, healthy communities with permaculture.
Are you considering a food forest in your yard or community?
Contact us today for the how, what, and why. We’ll provide you with resources, designers, and potential partners in your area.
We are here for YOU!
What is a Food Forest?
Designed to operate as an ecosystem, a food forest focuses on trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, and self-seeding annuals that, once established, will need only a little help from people to be very productive.
Our Mission
We empower people to feed themselves through agroforestry, edible landscaping, and education.
Our goal is to encourage, empower, and equip people to plant and care for edible plants all over. We intend to do this by planting public food forests, designing low-maintenance edible landscapes for clients, and educating through classes.
How you can help
You can help by converting a little or a lot of your own property to sustainable edible landscaping, volunteering at our public food forests, or by making a tax-deductible donation.
Recent News
University of Minnesota Extension Southwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships Project
From July 2024-May 2025, Project Food Forest worked with partners to address soil health at Project Food Forest’s demonstration site, Prairie Ally, located in Luverne, Minnesota. The project team researched and implemented soil health and watering best management practices such as drip irrigation, planting nitrogen fixing plants, adding amendments, and other recommendations from UMN staff in Prairie Ally’s publicly accessible vegetable garden and food forest. Numerous perennial plants including berry bushes, herbs, and native plants were added in the food forest; offering years of beauty and bounty to come. Interpretive signage and botanical signs were added as well. Along with physical improvements at Prairie Ally, a workshop on fruit production was held in May 2025, led by UMN Extension Fruit Production Educator Madeline Wimmer.
The Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (RSDP) bring together community and University knowledge and resources to drive sustainability in four focus areas: agriculture and food systems, clean energy, natural resources and resilient communities. Do you have an idea to submit? Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships | UMN Extension
This project is in partnership with the UMN Extension Southwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnership: Community-University partnerships for sustainability, serving Southwest Minnesota
