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The Foundation Ring: Planting the First Ten Feet Around Your House
Foundation Planting Done Right: Moisture, Pests and Shade
7 minBeginner
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The Ten-Year Food Forest
A seven-layer planting guild: two fruit trees, nitrogen fixers, berry canes, herbs and ground cover with a planting map.
What you get out of it
A perennial guild that feeds your family more every year while asking less of you every year.
This is for you if…
- You want food that comes back without replanting
- You have a quarter acre or less
- You're planting for the next decade, not next month
What you get
- Anchor fruit tree and rootstock$180 value
- Nitrogen-fixing support species$120 value
- Berry and understory layer$210 value
- Ground cover and mulch plan$90 value
- Guild design template for your zone$240 value
- Year-by-year establishment schedule$180 value
Total value$1,020
Your price$534
Itemized, so you can check our math
- 2 semi-dwarf fruit trees (bare root)
- 3 nitrogen-fixing shrubs
- 6 berry canes
- 12 perennial herb plugs
- Comfrey crowns and clover seed
- Scaled planting map
Specifications
- Covers: 30 ft circle
- Zones: 4–7
- First berries: year 2
- Tree fruit: years 4–6
Why it's specified this way
One complete guild, mapped to scale, for a 30-foot circle. Plant three of these on a suburban lot and you have a food forest that starts producing berries the second summer.
"Two beds and four hens. I stopped buying eggs in March and produce in June. My grocery bill is down about a third and my kids eat things they used to refuse."
Marisol Reyes
Bloomington, Indiana
312 lbs harvested · 128 jars canned
$534
4.81 ★ from 74 reviews · In stock
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