Tutu Sainz

Aloha Friend!

Congratulations, and welcome to Our Path to Infinite Abundance. Meet your new food forest.

I am writing today because my lifelong love for gardening led me to discover a more intelligent way of gardening - growing forests of food.

A food forest merges the strength of a forest with the bounty of orchards and veggie patches into an infinitely abundant Garden of Eden.

I hope you enjoy reading about food forests and get inspired to grow one near you. If you are looking for guidance on how to start a food forest, check out my book The 8 Step Path to Creating A Food Forest! It will help you to Step Into Nature's Infinite Abundance!

If you live in an apartment, you can find a community garden or neighbor's plot where you could grow a food forest, and make it into a group project for your community.

If you have a small or large backyard, you can grow a small or large food forest there.

By working hard and doing my best, I managed to purchase an affordable small house with a big yard that had several mature fruit and nut trees growing. I planted more fruit and nut trees.

Whenever I had time away from my small accounting service, I enjoyed planting, meditating, observing, and learning from the garden. It became my favorite activity.

During this time, I discovered on the internet the film Back-to-Eden starring Paul Gautschi, about his style of sustainable permaculture. I began practicing these new forms of gardening, which emphasize soil health by covering the soil with a sheet of organic mulch.

I began to see the harmony of a forest in my backyard garden and wrote it down in journals so I wouldn't forget. I became fascinated by the steady stream of foods and seeds ripening.

As I planted seeds for one crop, I harvested ripe produce from another, in a steady stream. Never before had I grown such an abundant garden. Not only was this garden the most successful one I had experienced, but it required little effort to install and maintain.

The forest is a unified community that cooperatively shares resources among diverse lifeforms.

The resources of sunlight, water, air, and earth flow to and through all the lifeforms as they work in specific ways to sustain the whole forest as a community.

Soil creatures, including bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, and spiders are all working consistently to improve soil health for the plants by breaking down spent plant and animal material forms into nutrient-dense soil.

Plants capture sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to combine with soil to grow new cells that store carbohydrates, proteins, and oils, which become food for animals and people before they end up back on the ground to transform into new plant growth.

Forests grow by themselves without help from humans. No one fertilizes a forest, sprays insecticides, or manages the wildlife, yet it produces the densest biomass on earth.

It's an excellent recycling design that uses sunlight to feed all life. Earth and Sun, along with plants and animals, are creating infinite abundance for us in native forests, and in our backyards when we grow food forests.

Now my backyard food forest grows and replicates itself. Perennial plants and trees keep fruiting in their seasons, re-seeding annual plants pop up by themselves and grow happily. There is always something fresh to eat.

I realized I had to share this good news with everyone around the world because there's enough abundance for us all!

During this time, I began to lose weight and feel rejuvenated. Now I weigh the same as in high school and have excellent health, flexibility, and energy.

Because of my wonder and amazement, I began blogging about my food forest journey in 2013 and because I once lived in Hawaii, I learned the concept of sharing the Aloha spirit with other people.

Now I call my yard the Aloha Food Forest because we treat all living creatures with Aloha, and it's not so much like a farm as it is a food forest! you can find more at alohafoodforest. com

My first blog post addressed the problem of crows eating all the pecans off of our tree, and how I learned that by trimming the tree so that the branches grow horizontally within reach of a person on a ladder, I was able to harvest more of the pecans the next year.

Although I was eager to share the valuable content, I felt shy about posting it. I overcame my fear with my love for helping others and posted it, and nothing terrible happened!

Over time, I wrote 100s of blog posts and pages, and my writing skills warmed up along with my confidence. People from all around the world now read and subscribe to my blog.

Soon, a book idea presented itself for me to write:

Our Path to Infinite Abundance: Introduction to Food Forests. Covers how they have the best return on investment, and why they are so enticing and astounding.

Book 2 The 8 Step Path to Creating a Food Forest, Step Into Nature's Infinite Abundance, is an 8-step guide to starting and maintaining a food forest in your backyard or community garden.

Book 3 is in progress, a guide to making hair and body care products, laundry and household cleaning products, and garden fertilizer from freshly harvested produce, which then recycles back into the backyard food forest.

So have fun reading and Aloha to you!

Please find more alohafoodforest. com and at foodforestuniversity. com