Name: Food Forest/Forest Garden Tour
Start: 2025-09-11T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-11T11:30:00-04:00
Location: 12906 Sandy Run Rd

$Food Forest\/Forest Garden Tour$

Join us for a fun, educational tour of our Food Forest/Forest Garden, where you can learn about which foods grow easily and without fuss.
About this Event

Food Forest/Forest Garden Tour - back by popular demand

Walk the perimeter of author Jen Reelitz's two-acre hobby farm with a 16,000 sq ft food forest, heritage breed pigs, chickens, and a plant nursery. In the food forest there are hundreds of fruiting plants perennial vegetables, including a wide variety of leaf crops and root crops. Jen will discuss the various fruit trees and staple crops that are recommended for our zone. She’ll give general tips and recommended resources.

This tour is helpful to be able to see, touch, and taste the various crops that can be grown here. This is not a formal class or lecture, it’s informal. Please be mindful that this will not be the time to answer personal garden questions that are location specific, otherwise we won’t have time to discuss all the amazing tropical crops and food forest tips! Those individual questions would be best suited for an on-site consultation.

At the end of the tour, seeds and live plants will be available for purchase.

This walking tour is a great introduction to the world of permaculture and food forests through real-life observation and sensory learning. We want you to leave feeling like you can do this, too! Don't miss out on this exciting adventure!

About Jen

Jen Reelitz is a self-educated food forest enthusiast and author of the book Food Forest Revolution. She has spent the last eight years learning how to grow food in the subtropics. Jen is admittedly a lazy gardener who loves the low-maintenance growing method that food forest offers. Jen is the owner and operator of Food Forest DIY, a company that offers backyard food forest consultations, design, installation, maintenance, and educational content. Jen is also a public speaker and a frequent guest on a variety of podcasts, venues, and events including Mounts Botanical Garden, 1000 Hours Outside, the Florida Homeschool Convention, and in local libraries and schools. Jen's goal is to help adults and children alike discover the wonder of dirt and enjoy the beauty and bounty of the earth. She hopes to help people find joy and satisfaction in growing food for their family.