Food Forest Design Weekend

La Goursaline · Bussière-Galant, France

Design and plant a layered, perennial edible ecosystem on a working permaculture farm between meadow and forest.

Read a site and design in seven layersPlant a real guild of trees, shrubs, and herbsStay in a Mongolian yurt on the farm

What you'll learn

Design a food forest for your own climate
Choose and place species in productive guilds
Plant trees and perennials the right way

What the land gains

A new phase of the farm's food forest planted
Guild plantings established around the yurts

The host site

La Goursaline

A permaculture farmstay between meadow and forest

Traditional Mongolian yurts dot a permaculture farm where meadow meets ancient woodland. The land is a living classroom of food forests, ponds, and rotational systems, with wood stoves keeping it cosy year-round.

Your teacher

Lena Hofstadter

Food forest & agroforestry designer

4.8 · 73 reviews · 11 yrs teaching