Building food forests in Australia's Amazon Basin region

Tree Fedeartion is a 40-hectare regenerative farm and open knowledge collective in the foothills of the Amazonian Basin, where every tree, hedgerow, and pollinator strip is treated as both a living asset and a data point. We grow food the way a forest grows itself—in layers, in relationship, and without depleting the ground beneath us.

What we do

We practice syntropic agroforestry, interplanting fruit and nut trees with nitrogen-fixing species, perennial vegetables, and understory crops so the system feeds itself. Chickens and a small herd of sheep follow a rotational grazing pattern that builds topsoil instead of stripping it. Over five years we've turned compacted, monocropped land into a mosaic that sequesters carbon, holds water through drought, and produces a genuinely diverse harvest.

But the "pedia" in our name is the heart of it. Every planting, every soil test, every failed experiment and surprising success gets documented and shared openly. We're building a community-owned reference for what actually works on the ground—not in theory, but in this soil, this climate, this season.