I have a small food forest on my 1/3 plot in US CT Zone 6b. I've a YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

still trying to get to 1k subs since that unlocks a whole slew of features to grow a channel. I'm at a disadvantage until then. My future goal is to buy a much bigger parcel of land and help nature establish a regenerative food forest and figure out enough about trust law to keep it that way in perpetuity after my death.

Not quite what you're asking for, but the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife turned his family's worn-out cattle farm in Brazil into a thriving forest, which is now a nature preserve. [1] [2] There's a segment about it in the documentary about Salgado, The Salt of the Earth. [3] Quite an inspiring story.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sebastiao-salgad...

[2] https://institutoterra.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_of_the_Earth_(2014_fi...

I do.

My advice is: Start now and figure the rest out later. Building something like this you need a multi-decade timespan to see your vision come even close to fruition.

Lots of resources from permaculture and regenerative agriculture. Look up “perennial food forest” sometime.

Permaculture draws a lot from indigenous practices, and those are other entry points for research.

There is probably a permaculture guild in your local area. Show up and tell them what you want to try in your backyard. They’ll probably know a lot about the local, native species and plant conditions.

Just stop mowing?

Look up "Miyawaki Method"