urban food forest garden tour

The Resiliency Exhibit. Our team is transforming the MODS backyard Science Park into a regenerative, tropical food forest system for our community to engage with and learn from.

Our latest community food forest is named after one of our native butterflies, the Atala. We began planting in November 2020 and are already harvesting calaloo, lemongrass, moringa, sweet potatoes, and papaya to share with volunteers and neighbors. 

The Circle of Life is an interactive, regenerative urban destination guiding city residents to remember their important role in the systems of life. It includes an Incredible Edible Garden, Butterfly Garden, Food Forest, Tropical Orchard, and Nature Trails through the city's remaining hardwood hammock. 

The Monarch Food Forest began in the fall of 2019 in an open lot neighboring a local 4H club’s learning center. It has evolved into a living classroom to exchange resources and practice regenerative agriculture in the urban environment.

In 2018 the only edible plants on this site were an orange tree that bore no fruit, a monstera vine, and a kent mango in the backyard. There are now over 150 edible, medicinal, useful plants in this small parcel of land in our city. 

A project for an Airbnb at a historic estate in Pompano Beach inspiring guests to connect with the land during their stay in the tropics. We transformed it into a productive food forest system complete with on-site composting and tropical poolside herb gardens.

Where I began teaching permaculture. I created Regenerative Gardening in the Tropics – a four week course empowering students with a strong foundation to grow regenerative gardens in our place and designed one of our county's first public food forest systems, the Honeybee Trace.

This was where I began my path toward deepening my understanding of permaculture. I chose this site because it is a similar bioregion to the South Florida ecosystem I live and work in.