Florida Food Forests, Farms & Edible Landscapes

Explore food forests, regenerative farms, tropical fruit gardens, agroforestry systems, and edible landscapes documented by The Green Yard across Florida.

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  <div class="gy-kicker">Explore Florida</div>

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    Growing Food<br>
    in Florida
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    From tropical backyard food forests to regenerative farms and
    experimental agroforestry systems, meet the growers creating
    abundance across Florida.
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    <span class="gy-location-stat">9 Published Tours</span>
    <span class="gy-location-stat">Tampa to Miami</span>
    <span class="gy-location-stat">Food Forests · Farms · Tropical Fruit</span>
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<div class="gy-kicker">Meet the Growers</div>

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  Florida Through the<br>
  People Growing It
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  There is no single way to grow food in Florida. Across these tours,
  we visit backyard food forests, working farms, community growing
  spaces, nurseries, and experimental agroforestry systems to see
  what people are actually growing and how they are making it work.
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      Oak Hill, Florida
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    <h2>Green Flamingo Organics</h2>

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      Liz and the team at Green Flamingo Organics are building a
      productive small farm around regenerative and no-till practices.
      Across roughly 2.75 acres, production beds are integrated with
      cover crops, succession planting, companion planting, seed
      saving, tarping, compost, and community programs.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Regenerative Farming</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">No-Till</span>
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">CSA</span>
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      <span>Green Flamingo Organics — Featured Video</span>
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      New Smyrna Beach, Florida
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    <h2>Rebel Farms</h2>

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      Tyson and Maggie are treating Rebel Farms as a real-world
      experiment in agriculture and community. Their food forest
      systems test tropical fruit, cultivar performance, freeze
      tolerance, flooding, canopy design, and soil building to learn
      what can reliably produce in their part of Florida.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Food Forest</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Tropical Fruit</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Plant Trials</span>
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      <span>Rebel Farms — Featured Video</span>
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      Tampa, Florida
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    <h2>Gonza Gardens</h2>

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      KC has transformed a residential Tampa property into a
      high-density tropical food forest where fruit trees, perennial
      vegetables, rare ornamentals, pollinator plants, ponds, and
      propagation areas share the same landscape.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Residential Food Forest</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Tropical Fruit</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Dense Planting</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Zone 10A</span>
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        Explore the Gonza Gardens Tours
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          Backyard Tour →
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      <span>Gonza Gardens — Featured Video</span>
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      Central Florida
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    <h2>Ryan's Growing Systems</h2>

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      Ryan's Central Florida property gives us two different views
      of productive perennial growing: a hidden food forest and the
      larger agroforestry systems surrounding it. Together, the tours
      show how food production can be layered into larger landscapes.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Agroforestry</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Food Forest</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Perennial Systems</span>
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        Explore Ryan's Tours
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          Agroforestry Systems →
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      <span>Central Florida — Featured Video</span>
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      Miami, Florida
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    <h2>Finca Morada</h2>

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      Finca Morada shows another side of Florida edible landscaping,
      combining food-producing plants with native species and a
      landscape designed around both people and the surrounding
      ecological community.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Native Plants</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Edible Landscape</span>
      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Miami</span>
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        Explore Finca Morada
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          Backyard & Community Tour →
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      <span>Finca Morada — Featured Video</span>
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      Homestead, Florida
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    <h2>Beez Tropical Garden</h2>

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      In Homestead, the Florida catalog moves deep into tropical
      fruit territory. Beez Tropical Garden gives us a look inside a
      nursery environment where tropical and subtropical fruit trees
      are propagated, grown, and shared with other growers.
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      <span class="gy-grower-tag">Nursery</span>
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<div class="gy-kicker">Growing in Florida</div>

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  One State.<br>
  Very Different Growing Conditions.
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  These tours don't provide one formula for growing in Florida.
  Instead, they show how growers adapt to the conditions around them —
  from Tampa and Central Florida to the Atlantic coast, Miami, and
  Homestead.
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    <h3>Warmth</h3>
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      Florida's climate creates opportunities for tropical and
      subtropical plants that would be difficult to grow across much
      of the continental United States.
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    <h3>Cold</h3>
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      Warm does not mean frost-free everywhere. Rebel Farms shows
      how a major freeze can quickly reveal which species and
      cultivars are actually resilient.
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    <h3>Water</h3>
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      Florida growers may deal with heavy rainfall, flooding, drought
      periods, and intense humidity — sometimes within the same
      growing system.
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    <h3>Soil</h3>
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      Across these properties, growers use mulch, compost, cover
      crops, chop-and-drop, living roots, and other strategies to
      continually build their soils.
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<div class="gy-kicker">Across the Tours</div>

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  What We're Finding<br>
  Growing in Florida
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  These aren't generic recommendations for the state. They're plants
  and growing groups we've actually encountered while documenting
  Florida growers for The Green Yard.
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    <h3>Tropical Fruit</h3>
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      Mango · Banana · Jackfruit · Starfruit · Sapodilla ·
      Black Sapote · Acerola · Passion Fruit
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    <h3>Avocados & Citrus</h3>
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      Avocado cultivars · Calamondin · Limequat · Persian Lime ·
      Meyer Lemon · Additional citrus trials
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    <h3>Annual Production</h3>
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      Lettuce · Carrots · Turnips · Kale · Fennel · Cilantro ·
      Dill · Pea Shoots · Beans
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    <h3>Support Plants</h3>
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      Gingers · Turmeric · Cover crops · Pollinator plants ·
      Native canopy · Soil-building species
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<div class="gy-kicker">What We're Learning</div>

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  Lessons From<br>
  Florida Growers
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  Every property is different, but several ideas continue to appear
  as we document how people are producing food across Florida.
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    <h3>Diversity Creates Options</h3>
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      Growing many species and cultivars allows growers to see what
      succeeds when weather, pests, or other conditions change.
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    <h3>Build the Soil</h3>
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      Cover crops, mulch, compost, living roots, and chop-and-drop
      appear repeatedly across very different Florida systems.
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    <h3>Test Before You Scale</h3>
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      Real-world plant performance can matter more than what a label
      says should grow in a particular climate.
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    <h3>Use the Whole Property</h3>
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      Front yards, side yards, native canopy, ponds, fences, and
      small pockets of sunlight can all become productive spaces.
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    <h3>Grow for Your Microclimate</h3>
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      Florida isn't one growing environment. Coastal exposure,
      freezes, flooding, shade, and urban heat can change what works.
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    <h3>Abundance Can Be Shared</h3>
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      CSAs, neighbors, volunteers, community gardens, nurseries, and
      shared harvests show that these landscapes can reach beyond a
      single household.
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