About Bring Back Eden

Restoring land to the abundance it was made for

We design landscapes that feed families, heal the soil and give children a magical garden to grow up in.

Portrait of Matthew Nadu, founder of Bring Back Eden, in a wide-brim hat
Matthew Nadu, founder

The mission

Plant it. Preach it. Eat it.

Matthew Nadu with his wife and son at a garden event
Matthew with his wife and son

We are stewards of God's creation. We grow food, get inspired, and show others how to do the same.

Bring Back Eden is a faith-rooted food forest company in Southwest Florida. We treat stewardship of the land as a calling: build soil, plant in layers, and leave every property more alive than we found it.

Matthew is a husband and father, and the work is personal: restoring the creation mandate of Genesis, to work the garden and keep it, one family's land at a time.

Our own Bradenton backyard is where we test every idea first. It has been planted, harvested, damaged by storms, rebuilt and changed again. What works there shapes what we build for clients.

Matthew Nadu holding red rambutan beside a grower with a bucket of fresh-picked tropical fruit
Rambutan, straight from the grower.

The founder

Matthew Nadu

Matthew grew up in Pennsylvania and worked in sports and entertainment, including NBC, then as a filmmaker and photographer in Los Angeles. Men's work with EVRYMAN and Exodus 90 led him to a deeper purpose, and in 2020 to the creation mandate: work the garden and keep it.

He and his wife moved their two sons from Los Angeles to Florida, got back to the land and started building food forests, welcoming a third son along the way. They saw a state that can grow fruit year-round with almost none in its yards. Bring Back Eden is their answer.

His photography and men's-work stories have been featured in Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider and Inc., with appearances on TODAY and ABC.

Speaking, hosting & photography

Certified Florida-Friendly Landscape Professional

Landscapes designed for Florida water, soil and climate.

Permaculture Design Certificate

Whole-system design for food, water and soil.

Tropical Agriculture, University of Florida

Currently completing graduate study in Tropical Agriculture through the University of Florida.

Rare fruit field work

Searching for rare fruit around the world as “Matthew the Fruit Hunter.”

Matthew's baby tasting a freshly opened breadfruit

Searching for Eden

Stories from the field

Expeditions, rare fruit and the families who grow it. Follow along on YouTube.

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