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A blog about sustainable living and permaculture in the rain forest A food forest is an ecosystem design to sustain humans and all life together, without exclusion. It is design to mimic all the layers of a forest with food, primarily for humans.

Walking naked feet in a food forest, eating everything in our way, while watching animals, insects and birds do the same is everyones dream. Pick up eggs and fruits in the mornings for breakfast;  salads, spices, mushrooms and veggies for lunch and dinner, and bathing on this amazing crystal clear, green emerald and turquoise beaches is living in paradise.

And to live that dream we had to:

Create a food forest thinking about the layers of a forest. Try some of this simple techniques, traditional methods and green technologies that we have been using at Finca Tierra, with great success.

Once you know where the sun comes out, and where the winds are blowing, you know how to orient your house in a way that you’ll have the perfect light and the freshest breeze trough your home.

You can start with this five simple steps to build your house.