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Eating Trees

In addition to fruit, trees yield bark, leaves, twigs, seeds, pollen, roots, new growth, flowers & sap used for syrup, sequestering carbon protecting soil health & biodiversity.

Why It's Cool?!

How to Get There?

Education & Certifications
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Certificate in Ethnobotany & Food Forests

Bastyr University / Naropa University

Academic and applied certificate in ethnobotany, edible native species, and food forest design — applicable to wild food education, agroforestry outreach, and Indigenous food system careers.

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Internships
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Agroforestry & Forest Food Systems Intern

Agroforestry Net

Explore edible tree crops, forest gardening, and food forest design in an 8-week immersive agroforestry internship on a working farm in Kona, Hawaii.

Mentors
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Samuel Thayer

Author, Nature's Garden / Forager & Tree Food Educator

The foremost practitioner author on wild and tree foods in North America; forager, educator, and speaker.

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Mentorship Network

Agroforestry Research Trust (Martin Crawford)

UK-based agroforestry and edible forest garden organization with practitioner mentorship in tree crops and food forests.

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Martin Crawford

Director, Agroforestry Research Trust / Food Forest Pioneer

Created the UK's most influential food forest; author of Creating a Forest Garden; practitioner mentor.

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Mentorship Network

Edible Forest Gardens Network – Dave Jacke Community

Practitioner community for edible forest garden designers and tree food advocates with mentorship and collaborative project connections.

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