THE FOREST GARDENER
THE ONE GUILD FOOD FOREST
Turn Your Land into a Beautiful, Productive Food Forest That Basically Runs Itself
One Doable Guild at a Time
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Matthew Brown
United States
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Pre-enrollment is open now for the next round, opening August 17th.
Pre-order for the first round. Founding price locked in today, before it goes up to €147, and before this round's bonuses disappear.
How The One-Guild Method turns your land into a food forest, one doable step at a time
The One Guild Food Forest Online Workshop breaks the big, overwhelming idea of a food forest into one clear process, with a clear starting point.
By the end of the workshop, you have your first guild in the ground, designed for your climate and planted with what you actually want to eat.
And from there, you repeat it, guild by guild, whenever your time, energy, or budget allow, until what you have is a beautiful and productive food forest, that needs only a little bit of seasonal care to keep it that way.
1. Foundation
Understand what makes a food forest guild actually work.
Learn the basic structure behind a strong food forest guild: the right plant roles, the right layout, and enough order to avoid creating a messy, overcrowded patch.
2. Location
Choose the best place to start your first guild.
A good guild can still struggle in the wrong spot. You’ll learn how to choose a strong, realistic starting location before anything goes in the ground.
3. Design
Choose the right plants and place them where they belong.
You’ll choose your main tree, select the plants around it, and understand where everything goes so your guild is productive, beautiful, and manageable as it grows.
4. Plan
Turn your design into a clear planting plan.
A good idea is not enough. You’ll turn your guild design into a plan you can actually take outside, so you know what goes where and what needs to happen first.
5. Plant
Put your first guild in the ground properly.
You’ll learn how to prepare the area, plant the main tree, add the supporting layers, and give the guild a strong start instead of guessing your way through planting day.
6. Care
Help your guild establish without daily babysitting.
The first months matter. You’ll learn what to watch, maintain, water, mulch, protect, and adjust while the guild settles in.
7. Repeat & Expand
Repeat the pattern as your food forest grows.
One guild is not the whole food forest. It is the first repeatable piece. Once you know how to create one properly, you can use the same pattern again as your budget, season, skills, and energy allow.
That’s the journey inside the workshop: build your first guild properly, learn the repeatable pattern, and start growing your food forest one doable piece at a time.
"Thank you for the structure. Otherwise, it can feel very overwhelming and chaotic if I want to do everything at once."
María Fernanda
Ecuador
Laura Bennett
England
Alejandro Martín
Spain
What You Get Inside the Workshop
To help you complete that journey, you get the lessons, workbook, templates, and support you need to design, plan, plant, and care for your first guild, without starting from a blank page.
From there, you get clear, step-by-step instructions to expand your food forest, guild by guild, so you can grow more of the food you actually want to eat.
✅ 16 Step-by-Step Video Lessons
Follow 16 practical lessons that walk you through the full process in the right order, from understanding what makes a guild work to designing, planting, caring for, and expanding it. So you are not left wondering what to do first, what comes next, or what you might be forgetting.
✅ Complete Guild Design Workbook
Use a workbook that follows the lessons step by step, with guided exercises and real examples that help you make the actual decisions for your own guild as you go. Instead of finishing with notes you never use, you turn the workshop into a clear plan you can take outside and plant from.
✅ Email Support
If you get stuck while going through the workshop, you can reach out by email for help with the process. You are still doing the work, but you are not left completely alone with a half-finished plan, unclear next steps, or the feeling that you might be missing something important.
✅ Lifetime Access
Whether you're still looking for land, can't be there every week, or it simply isn't planting season where you are right now, none of that costs you anything. Whenever your land, your time, and the season line up, everything is still exactly where you left it.
Plus 5 bonuses when you join this first round:
✅ Bonus 1: The One-Guild Food Forest Templates
Over 60 ready-made guild templates across different climates, so instead of starting from a blank page, you open a layout that's already built and tested, and adapt it to your own tree and land.
✅ Bonus 2: Four Real Climate Case Studies
See the entire process applied start to finish in a cold climate, a Mediterranean climate, a subtropical and tropical climate, and a hot, dry climate, so you can see this proven somewhere close to your own conditions, not just mine.
✅ Bonus 3: First Guild FAQ & Troubleshooting Library
Roughly twelve sections covering the exact problems people run into, from plant choice to soil prep to pests and slow growth, so when something confusing comes up, you have somewhere to look first instead of spiraling back into research.
✅ Bonus 4: Personal Guild Review
Once you've designed your own guild, send it to me and I'll personally review it, so you have a second pair of eyes before you spend real money on plants and put anything in the ground for good.
✅ Bonus 5: Property Purchase Checklist
If you don't have land yet, this tells you exactly what to look for before you buy, so you're not discovering its limits after the papers are signed.
Your First Guild Planned, Planted, and Ready to Grow
Pre-order for the first round. Founding price locked in today, before it goes up to €147, and before this round's bonuses disappear.
Is this right for you?
This workshop is for you if...
You want to start a food forest with a clear first step.
You want to know what to plant first, what belongs around it, and how far apart everything should go.
You want a clear step-by-step process instead of piecing things together from videos, books, plant lists, and conflicting advice.
You're still looking for land, or waiting to move onto it, and want to be ready the moment you can start.
You want to turn one part of your land into the first productive guild of your future food forest.
You want a repeatable method you can use again as your food forest grows.
You have a life going on, limited time and energy, other responsibilities, and you want a starting point that fits into that reality.
This workshop is probably not for you if...
You want a complete custom masterplan for your entire property.
You want someone else to make every decision for you without learning the process.
You are mainly looking for advanced permaculture theory, academic design philosophy, or endless ecological deep dives.
You expect instant self-sufficiency, instant abundance, or a mature food forest by next weekend.
You want a zero-maintenance system and are not willing to plant, observe, care for young plants, and make small adjustments as your guild establishes.
A Quick Note Before You Join
This is a pre-order for the first round of the workshop. Enrollment is open now, but the full workshop, lessons, workbook, and everything else, goes live on August 17th. Reserve your spot today at the founding price, and you'll get instructions to access everything the moment it opens.
Choose the way that fits you
Go through the workshop on your own, at your own pace, or get hands-on help from me to design your first guild around your actual land, climate, and goals.
Self-Guided Workshop
Standard price: €147
Current opening price:
€97
(€50 off)
Includes:
16 step-by-step video lessons
The complete guild design workbook
Email support while working through the process
Lifetime access to the workshop and materials
Plus, you get access to these 5 bonuses:
Bonus 1: The Templates
Bonus 2: Climate case studies
Bonus 3: Troubleshooting Library
Bonus 4: A personal guild review from me
Bonus 5: A property purchase checklist
This opening price is available for a short time. After this window closes, the self-guided workshop moves to the standard price of €147, without the bonuses.
32 of the 50 spots are already taken, in just three days.
Workshop + Custom Guild Design
One time payment of:
€497
Includes everything in the workshop, plus:
Everything in Option 1, plus hands-on help from me
A full site analysis and base map of your land
Your top 3 best guild locations
Your first guild designed together, live, on a private call
You walk away with:
The finished design, the full plant list, the planting sequence, and care notes, all worked out for your specific land.
5 of the 10 spots are already taken, in just three days.
Enrollment closes Sunday, July 19th, or once the spots are gone, whichever happens first.
30-Day First Guild Clarity Guarantee 🤝
I want you to feel completely safe doing this. Go through the workshop, do the exercises, and use the workbook to build your first guild plan. If you're still unclear on your first guild, send me your completed workbook within 30 days, and I'll personally help you get clear. If I can't, I'll refund you.
I can't promise every plant will survive, that depends on your climate, your soil, and how you care for it. But I can promise you'll know exactly what to do, and how to pivot when necessary.
This guarantee applies to the Self-Guided Workshop only.
A note on the Custom Guild Design option
This option includes personal time, a private call, and design work built specifically for your land. Because of that, it's not refundable once the call is booked or the design work has started. If anything is unclear after delivery, just send me your questions and I'll help you clarify it.
Brian Miller
United States
Pre-order for the first round. Founding price locked in today, before it goes up to €147, and before this round's bonuses disappear.
Before You Join, You Might Be Wondering...
Yes, for your first food forest guild.
The workshop walks you through choosing your main tree, deciding what plants belong around it, placing the different layers, working out the spacing, and turning it all into a clear planting plan.
But it is not just a random “copy this guild” recipe.
You will learn how to make the decisions properly, so you understand why each plant is there, why it goes where it goes, and how the whole guild fits together.
That way, you are not only creating your first guild. You are learning the repeatable process you can use again as you add more guilds and grow your food forest over time.
You do not need to be a food forest expert.
You do not need to understand permaculture theory, succession, guild design, or all the technical terminology before starting.
This is made for people who want a practical first step.
If you can follow clear instructions, observe your space, plant young plants, and care for them while they establish, you can work through this process.
You do not need a large property to start.
The whole point of the One-Guild Method is to begin with one clear section of land instead of trying to design everything at once.
Your first guild could be in a small garden, an orchard corner, a young planting area, a weedy patch, or part of a larger piece of land.
The exact size depends on your main tree, your climate, your plant choices, and the space you have available.
Inside the workshop, you will learn how to choose a realistic starting place for your first guild.
The method is designed to work across different climates because it does not rely on one fixed plant recipe.
It teaches you how to think through your first guild, choose plants that make sense for your conditions, and design around the reality of your land.
You also get the One-Guild Food Forest Templates bonus, with 60+ ready-made guild templates across temperate, Mediterranean, and subtropical climates, so you are not starting from a blank page.
You still need to choose plants that fit where you live.
The workshop gives you the process, but your climate, soil, water, wind, and local plant availability still matter.
That is fine.
You can still go through the workshop, design your first guild, create your planting plan, and make a clear list of what you need before planting.
Depending on your season, budget, plant availability, weather, and site preparation, you may plant straight away or prepare first and plant when the timing is right.
The goal is not to rush.
The goal is to move from confusion into a clear, practical plan you can actually put in the ground.
You can work through the workshop lessons in a focused weekend.
If you already have your plants, materials, water access, and planting area ready, you may be able to plant your first guild straight away.
If not, the workshop still takes you through the full process.
You will design your guild, create your planting plan, understand what needs to happen next, and know how to plant it properly when your site, season, and materials are ready.
This is not meant to be another course you watch and forget.
It is designed to move you from planning to planting.
That is completely fine.
In many cases, an existing fruit tree can become the main tree for your first guild.
The workshop helps you stop seeing that tree as a lonely fruit tree in the ground, and start seeing it as the anchor for a more complete planting around it.
So you may not be starting from zero. You may already have the beginning of your first guild.
The templates give you ready-made guild examples and layouts you can study and adapt. The workshop gives you the full process.
Inside the workshop, you learn how to choose the right starting place, pick your main tree, select the plants around it, space everything properly, turn it into a planting plan, plant it, care for it, and repeat the method as your food forest grows.
The templates help you avoid starting from a blank page. The workshop shows you how to make the decisions and actually create your own guild.
And if you join this first round, you don't have to choose between the two.
The One-Guild Food Forest Templates are included as a bonus, so you get the full process, plus the templates to work from as you design your own guild and expand from there.
The Self-Guided Workshop gives you the full step-by-step process, workbook, support, lifetime access, and all 5 bonuses, including the templates.
You follow the method and create your first guild yourself.
The Workshop + Custom Guild Design option includes everything in the Self-Guided Workshop, plus personal help from me.
I personally review your land, put together a full site analysis and a base map, and give you the top 3 best locations for your first guild. Then we design that first guild together, live, on a private call.
Instead of walking away with just a design, you walk away with the finished design, the full plant list, the planting sequence, and care notes, already worked out for your specific land, with me directly.
The self-guided option teaches you the method. The custom option gives you the method, plus a guild designed together with me, for your exact land.
No. This workshop focuses on helping you create your first complete food forest guild.
It's the first repeatable piece of a larger food forest, not a complete custom design for your whole property.
If you're looking for full property planning, access, water, windbreaks, zones, and a complete implementation plan, that's outside the scope of this workshop.
Feel free to reach out to me directly if that's what you need.
Yes.
You get lifetime access to the workshop and materials, so you can move at your own pace, come back when the season is right, and use the method again as you add more guilds over time.
Your food forest will not be built in one sitting, and that is the point.
Yes. The Self-Guided Workshop comes with a 30-day First Guild Clarity Guarantee.
Go through the workshop, do the exercises, and use the workbook to build your first guild plan. If you're still unclear, send me your completed workbook within 30 days, and I'll personally help you get clear. If I can't, I'll refund you.
This guarantee doesn't cover plant survival or growing results, that depends on your climate, soil, and care.
Why This Workshop Starts With One Guild
I’m Moreno, The Forest Gardener.
The reason I teach food forests through one guild first is simple: it is where most people get stuck.
Most people I speak with already want the same thing: food from their land, a place that looks beautiful, and a system that becomes easier to care for over time.
The hard part is knowing what to plant first, where it goes, and how to make sure it does not turn into a mess.
I have seen this in my own food forests, in my market garden, with 500+ students worldwide, and in personal consultations with more than 100 gardeners and landowners.
That is why this workshop does not start with the whole property. It starts with one guild.
I have spent more than a decade growing food in different climates, and I teach from what I have actually planted, tested, got wrong, and improved.
The goal is to help you create the first working piece of your food forest, understand why it works, and use the same process again as your land becomes more productive over time.
One last thing...
I know how easy it is to keep your food forest as an idea.
You watch another video. Save another plant list. Think through another possible layout. Wait for the perfect season, the perfect plan, or the moment where everything finally feels clear.
But at some point, the food forest has to stop living in your head and start living in the ground.
That does not mean designing the whole property today.
It means starting with the first real piece.
One main tree.
The right plants around it.
A clear layout.
A proper planting plan.
A strong start in the ground.
And a pattern you can repeat as your food forest grows.
There will always be more to learn. Food forests are very generous that way.
But if you are ready to take the first clear step toward a food forest that actually feeds you, this workshop is built to help you get started.
Pre-order for the first round. Founding price locked in today, before it goes up to €147, and before this round's bonuses disappear.