Discovery Day — Immersive Food Forest Experience
A one-day guided immersion into living food systems, designed to help you understand how food forests work in real environments — and how to adapt them to your own land.
Overview
Discovery Day offers an accessible introduction to food forest systems through guided exploration of established gardens and demonstration sites. The focus is on observation, context, and understanding how ecological systems function as a whole.
What Happens
Participants are guided through living food forest environments, learning to identify plant layers, functional relationships, and system patterns. Sessions emphasise seeing how plants interact over time rather than following prescriptive techniques.
Who It’s For
Discovery Days are suitable for community groups, students, educators, visitors, and individuals new to food forests who want a grounded and practical introduction to regenerative growing systems.
Learning Outcomes
Participants leave with a clearer understanding of food forest structure, plant roles, and how regenerative systems can be adapted to different landscapes and contexts.
Discovery Day — Immersive Food Forest Experience
A one-day guided immersion into living food systems, designed to help you understand how food forests work in real environments — and how to adapt them to your own land.
What you’ll experience
- Guided tour through thousands of edible and useful plant species
- Multiple food forest approaches explained through real examples
- Clear timelines for action, development, and long-term outcomes
- Hands-on understanding of propagation and system expansion
- Seasonal fruit tasting and microclimate exploration
Guided walkthrough systems
- Dwarf Tropical Biodome
- Exclusion Orchard of mature trees
- Hillyards Food Forest Gardens
- Daley’s Nursery design walkthrough
What’s included
- Starter guide
- Written feedback summary on your property
- Access to participant action group
- 10% discount on Advanced Design Studio
- 20% discount at Daley’s Nursery
Is Discovery Day right for you?
Not sure where to start? Choose one — we’ll guide you.