Tutu Sainz

Aloha Friend!

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

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

I hope you enjoy reading my new book about food forests and get inspired to grow one near you.

Even 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.

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

Back in the year 2011, when I and so many of us worldwide were being dashed about in a sea of crashing financial economies and chaos all around, by working hard and doing my best, I miraculously managed to purchase an affordable small house with a big run-down yard that had several mature fruit and nut trees growing. I started an aquaponic system and planted more fruit and nut trees.

Whenever I had time away from my small accounting business, I enjoyed planting and meditating and 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. I thought about what I observed and talked with my husband about it, then I wrote it down in journals so I wouldn't forget. I became fascinated by talking about the steady stream of foods and seeds ripening.

As I planted, I harvested. 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.

I perceived that the forest is a unified community that shares resources cooperatively among diverse types of 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 are capturing 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 be used again to form new plant growth.

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

It's a miraculous 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!

Because of my wonder and amazement during this transformation of perception, I began blogging about my food forest journey in 2013 at www.alohafarms.net I called my website Aloha Farms originally because I used to live in Hawaii, and I love the concept of sharing Aloha spirit with other people, and I thought of it as a farm.

Now I call 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!

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 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 anyway, and nothing bad happened!

Over time, I wrote over 75 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.

Then a book idea presented itself for me to write. The content fell into three sections, so I divided it into three books, and that felt more manageable.

Book 1 is Our Path to Infinite Abundance: Introduction to Food Forests. Why they are so enticing and wonderful.

Book 2 is an 8-step guide to starting and maintaining a food forest in your backyard or community garden.

Book 3 is a guide to making shampoos, hair colorings, soaps, kinds of toothpaste, laundry soap, and other household cleaning products from freshly harvested produce, which then recycles back into the backyard food forest.

So have fun reading and Aloha to you!

Please find my blog at https://www.alohafoodforest.com/