Drawing on my academic background in the natural sciences and a long-standing commitment to permaculture ethics, I founded Nordic Forest Garden Plantskola in Björklinge, Sweden, to advance the development of resilient, multi-layered perennial systems. My work focuses on adapting boreal environments for food forests and other permaculture-based landscapes, centering on the establishment of resilient cold-hardy polycultures that function as self-sustaining ecosystems. Central to this mission is my on-site demonstration food forest, which serves as a living laboratory to showcase the viability of low-input, regenerative food production within the Swedish climate.

The nursery’s northern location is fundamental to my methodology, providing a rigorous environment for comparative cultivar trials aimed at expanding the geographical and thermal limits of productive species. This research is specifically designed to increase food diversity within permaculture endeavors by identifying and propagating cold-hardy genotypes of various fruit and nut trees—such as walnuts and peaches—alongside a wide array of perennial plants often assumed to be unviable in such latitudes. At Nordic Forest Garden Plantskola, I specialize in the distribution of these rare edible perennials and their associated support species, providing the genetic foundation required to diversify and strengthen perennial-based systems across Northern Europe.