Creating a Native Food Forest for Australian Properties

Creating a Native Food Forest for Australian PropertiesA native food forest replaces a traditional garden with a multi-layer productive landscape — canopy fruit trees, understorey shrubs, ground covers, vines, and root crops — all providing food while requiring minimal inputs once established.Getting StartedDesign the native food forest in layers: canopy (lemon myrtle, Illawarra plum, quandong); understorey (riberry, Davidson's plum, native limes); shrub layer (saltbush, lemon ironbark, nati…