My wife just found a photo of our front yard from when we first bought our house in 2010… so today I’m going to share a food forest before and after!

Here’s the before:

And the after:

Here’s a shot from 2012 from beside the front door:

And here’s a shot from a few days ago:

Here’s another shot from 2012:

And a follow up from last week:

That’s only three years from one shot to the next. Ah, Florida!

In that shot there are tangerines… figs… root beer plant… cassava… apple… pawpaws… sumac… loquat… malanga… arrowroot…. Japanese raisin tree… there’s a lot of food packed in just that little piece of the food forest.

Now here’s another food forest before and after – the first shot was a little after we moved in:

And here’s the same area now:

Simpson stoppers, mulberry, plums, peach, arrowroot, sweet potatoes, goumi berries and lots more live there… much better than grass.

My food forest philosophy and helpful species lists are in my short book Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, available in both paperback and kindle version on Amazon. I’ve also recently released it as an audiobook – you can get that version here.

If you missed the food forest tour I posted last week, here it is again:

This food forest and home are now for sale, so contact me if you’re interested in an acre of productive paradise. I’m going to post more photos soon!