Bob Henkel wants to share his thoughts on how packaging, processing, shipping, waste and chemical fertilizers can be radically reduced in our food system. His work around the country working with models of permaculture and "edible food forests" points to opportunities in perennial farming systems to have savings and healthy food flow to consumers while real and sustainable profits are earned by producers and entrepreneurs. Prepare to think differently about how food can nourish us physically, economically and socially.

1. DisruptiveDiner:
Profitably Sustainable Food
Bob Henkel

2. “You can solve
all the world’s problems in
a garden”
-Geoff Lawton

3. Agribusiness

4. What’s in a Perennial
Food Forest?
Currants
Jerusalem
Artichokes
StrawberriesWalnuts Perennial Onions
Rhubarb

5. Community Garden
MoreValue
Still High Maintenance
LAWNS
High Maintenance
Food Desert
Ecological Harm
Little Value

6. Small patches
to
7-acre multi-element projects
Seattle,WA
Edible Forest Gardens

7. HEALTHY
FOREST
Mimicking a
Forest for
Food
Production

8. Food Forest
Installation
Keyline
Subsoil Plow
Technique
for Pastures
Before After

10. Polycultures
(Forests)
Recycle Nutrients
Monocultures
Lose
Nutrients

11. Plants Serve
Multiple
Functions:
1. Insect Nectary
2. Dynamic
Accumulator
3. Ground Cover
4. Weed Suppression
5. Water Retention
6. Fertilizer
7. Habitat
8. Soil Building
9. Food
10. Medicine

12. Pear Tree Guild includes: Currants, Comfrey, Garlic

14. From
Fresh Food Desert
to a
Community Food
Forest

15. How do you want your food?
OR

16. Chop and Drop
Mulching
mimics a
Forest Leaf Drop

17. All Plants Depend on This
Web For Nutrition

19. Me
Installing Food Forest
on a Swale

20. Value-Added
Products

21. The best time to plant a tree was
20 years ago, the second best time
is now.
- Chinese Proverb