What it is
A printable PDF bundle from The Gr0ve containing design templates for planning food forests and agroforestry systems. Templates include site analysis worksheets, species selection matrices, layered planting plans, succession timelines, and water management layouts. Designed for both backyard food forests and small-farm agroforestry installations.
Why we picked this
Good food forest design requires organizing complex information: species by layer, light requirements, root depths, succession timing, and harvest calendars. These templates structure that complexity into a visual planning process, saving designers the work of creating frameworks from scratch. Based on the agroforestry data showing sequestration of 0.55-1.9 Mg C/ha/yr with land equivalent ratios of 4.1-4.4.
Key takeaways
- Templates cover the full design process from site analysis through species selection to implementation scheduling.
- Alley cropping systems designed with these templates can match or exceed monocrop net present value over 40-year horizons (USDA ALLEY Model, 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations).
- The pack includes climate-zone-specific species lists for temperate, Mediterranean, and subtropical food forests.