What are /r/forestgardening's favorite Products & Services?

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I check local nurseries, other local orchard owners/workers, park personnel, etc... They are usually happy to share their knowledge. When I learn of a new tree or bush or plant that may be interesting I first try to find out if a variety of it exists locally (or why not) and try to learn about that from locals - what the weaknesses are, why the local variety is different than/preferred over others, and just how close to my micro-climate I can find it successfully thriving.

If no such data exists, I try to find a similar climate where it does grow well and if it seems like a good match I take the risk.

https://weatherspark.com/ can be used to compare two locations once you know where something grows well. I also read a lot about a species from as many sources as possible.

One of the online nurseries for my area of the world is international, serving multiple countries with climates ranging through all zones and has user submitted pictures and feedback about the plants they sell, so if I see a species commented on from another region, I compare the weather in those two places. Often the comments contain valuable clues about a species true variable nature, or not.

For my location, max temp, humidity tolerance, disease resistance, hardiness or chill hour requirements, wind tolerance and soil compatibility play the most important roles, in that order. This was learned by trial and error. Mistakes will be made, things will die, but if you at least learn why, then you have more info moving forward.

Gaia's Garden is the only permaculture book I use, but it is a general overview of everything related to permaculture, including food forests. I learned most of everything I know about permaculture / food foresting from Permaculture.com
just by talking to others, asking questions there,etc.

The basic methods and concepts of food foresting are the same everywhere from what I've seen. A good reason to have a book on it though is simply to have a portable version of those methods and concepts so you don't have to get to a computer to find out,say, if Siberian Pea Shrub is a nitrogen fixer or not,etc.

That said, I am sure this guy's method is just as good as anyone else's, but the same information can be found here and there if you piece it together yourself, the advantage of following a program is that it is packaged for easy digestion, I'm cheap, so I taught myself.