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Local ecosystem restoration and food forestry [1]

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Date: 2023-03-25

San Antonio food forest

A few years ago I started this project in my friend’s large yard in San Antonio. The yard was previously mostly dead Bermuda grass lawn and a few struggling shrubs. My friend wanted something different, colorful, good for birds and pollinators, and producing food. On one side of the front yard I’ve planted a garden of adapted roses, bulbs, and native pollinator-friendly flowers. On the other side is a food forest of fruit trees and other edible plants, as well as more flowers for pollinators. My hope is that this garden can be a model for other folks to transform their own yards.

This is an on-going project, so I will try to edit this diary from time to time to give more information.

List of edibles

Banana

Edible Canna

Rose

Mulberry

Plum

Fig

Asian Persimmon

Peach

Spineless Cactus aka Nopales

Chili Pequin (native)

Turk’s Cap (native)

Perennial Bunching Onion

Sweet Potato

Avocado

Oregano

Moringa

Asparagus

Apple

Pomegranate

Garlic Chives

List of ornamentals and pollinator plants

Rose

Gregg’s Blue Mistflower (native)

Grape Hyacinth

Ornamental Onion

Bluebonnets (native)

Salvias (some native)

Cowpen Daisy (native)

Bearded Iris

Coral Honeysuckle (native)

Mexican Primrose (native)

Winecup (native)

Engelmann’s Daisy (native)

Red Yucca (native)

Agave

Tropical Orchid Tree

Four O’ Clock

Sunflower (native)

Lantana (native)

Texas Mountain Laurel (native)

Some helpful resources

What is a food forest?

Grow your own food

Kitchen gardening

Ecosystem restoration

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