250+ Perennial Plants For Tropical and Sub-Tropical Food Forests and Permaculture Gardens
A tropical and sub-tropical food forest is a cornucopia of luscious food, which thrives on drawing carbon out of the atmosphere to grow trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants and climbers producing fruits, seeds, oils, greens, flowers, drinks and herbs. There are thousands of known food plants which thrive in hot climate zones, plants discovered and improved from time immemorial, from before the Agricultural Revolution brought about deforestation and land degradation to provide grains to feed city states. Our human ancestors were gatherers and gardeners; we may well have evolved with large brains to store and share knowledge of where nutritious plants were to be found, and how to modify nature to encourage them.
