Designing Regenerative Food Forests from the Ground Up
Every successful food forest begins with thoughtful design. Before selecting trees or planting the first seed, it’s essential to understand the land, identify your goals, and develop a design that works with nature rather than against it.
Dive deep into the design of food forests with Mike Garcia, Owner & Operator of Everoak Farm in Orlando, and Tyler Zaworski, Head of Food Forest at 4Roots Farm!
In this five-hour immersive workshop, we’ll explore the process of designing resilient, productive, and regenerative food forests, walking away with a deeper understanding of the principles behind successful food forest design and a clear framework for beginning—or refining—your own regenerative landscape with confidence.
What You’ll Learn
Rather than focusing on memorizing plant lists or following a one-size-fits-all blueprint, this workshop teaches participants how to think like an ecological designer.
Together, We’ll Explore:
- The foundational principles of agroforestry, food forests, and permaculture
- How to identify your context, goals, and design constraints
- Reading the landscape: including climate, topography, water movement, soils, and microclimates
- Understanding the Scale of Permanence and how it guides the design process
- Designing for ecological function before selecting plant species
- Understanding food forest structure, layers, guilds, and plant relationships
- Applying succession and long-term thinking to create resilient systems
- Matching design strategies to different property sizes, budgets, and management goals
- Learning from real-world examples through guided tours of the agroforestry systems at the 4Roots Farm Campus
Event Details
📆 Date & Time: Saturday, August 29th | 9:00am – 2:00pm
📍 Location: 4Roots Farm Campus, 1101 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL
🎟️ Ticket Price: $50 per attendee