UNHIDE Agroforestry booklet 2025.09.22 - Flipbook - Page 16
Boat in the Forest: Forest garden & food forest, Sweden
“In the beginning we had a lot of spacing
ideas when planting trees. Now we trust our
gut feeling, and the fact that nature with time
will sort out what works best, at its own pace.”
AT BOAT IN THE FOREST - harbour for radical
nomads, Etta Säfve and Jona Elfdahl are working
with reconnection processes; to bring back the
underground relationships built by fungal threads,
mycorrhizal trades and microbial alliances, and
above ground to reconnect us, humans, to the
same inherited relationship with the microbes,
to each other and the invisible communities that
sustain life.
The beautiful homestead includes food forests,
forest gardens, nut cultivation, bio-pools with
plants and biochar purification, each of them
and together forming the basis for exploratory
processes, with social & land-based permaculture
and “close to nature” nut cultivation courses,
workshops and artists in residence. Both Etta
and Jona make a living as artists, guest teachers,
process leaders and from seed collecting for an
online ecological seed store.
The nut trees planted here consist of a large mix
of walnuts, sweet chestnuts, hazelnuts and pine,
and many different varieties of each tree, to create
resilience and resistance to diseases. Thanks to
the proximity of the Baltic sea and the southern
location, autumns are very mild and walnuts have
grown for a long time in the region.
THE SURVIVAL OF THE
MOST CONNECTED IN A
HUGE DIVERSITY
Etta Säfve & Jona Elfdahl.
In the future there will be a boat hidden
in a nut tree forest...
