Heeeyyy, there are a lot, I’m in a Mediterranean climate and since I started planting I haven’t stopped. Permaculture is as addictive as Bitcoin. I try to have all the species I can, as long as they’re edible or provide some ethnobotanical value that makes my day to day easier in other areas like hygiene, medicine, crafts and construction.

As for the edible forest, the most important ones are carob trees, which enrich everything around them and make the best compost in the world. For me they’re the master trees that teach the rest, and I also make a chocolate substitute from them. Then moringa oleifera, for its nutritional and medicinal value and its usefulness, since the whole plant is edible, even the roots. And olives, there were loads before I was here, as they were the traditional monocultures in the area.

Now there’s a bit of everything, by zones depending on irrigation needs and compatibility between them, although it’s all mixed together. On one side, lemon trees, orange trees, cherimoya trees, papayas and loquats. On the other side, dry land trees and plants like fig trees, prickly pears, pomegranates, jujubes and dragon fruit. I think there are over 50 different species right now.

What’s under the trees is like a wild garden, or at least a partly wild one, because the plants are endemic ones that have been growing through nendo dango, so I can have some wild plants at my disposal, not only outside but also inside the edible forest, and I cultivate them year after year. Asparagus, wild lettuce, wild carrots, golden thistles and wild leeks get bigger and tastier each year.

Others I can’t enjoy because of the climate, like cherry trees, strawberry trees and blueberries, although I want to try them in a greenhouse. I don’t want to bore you. I think I’ll create a post that includes all the fruit tree species, because there are just too many.

Thanks for asking and sorry for the long message...