Open-Access Resources

Everything below is free to read and to download.

  • Download the Living Collection

The full database of over 500 fruit trees and varieties from more than 330 species. Make it yours: filter it by hardiness for a first shortlist, then check soil, water, wind and pollination.

Our Living Collection

  • Check our Plant Cemetery

Every species that failed here, and why. Our most useful page.

Plant Cemetery

  • Follow our live experiments

The Food Forest Lab, the Dry Orchard, the Mango Project and our salinity trials, with results published as they come in.

Food Forest Lab • Dry Orchard Experiment • Mango Project • Salinity and Edible Plants

  • Learn from our articles

Plant guides, agroecology techniques, irrigation and water saving, biological control and more, written from what we see in the field.

Plant Guides • Agroecology Techniques • Irrigation and Water Saving • Biological Control Methods • ..and more


🎓 Join the Food Tree Academy

Seven one-day workshops at the garden: subtropical food trees, the Cocoon food forest approach, pruning and fertilising, irrigation and water saving, propagation, pests and diseases, and plant physiology. See the dates and book your place.

Food Tree Workshops