A Bring Back Eden field guide · 44-page PDF

Grow a Florida yard your family can eat from

Name: The Fruit Hunter's Florida Family Fruit Guide
Brand: Bring Back Eden
Price: 29 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Matthew Nadu

A visual guide to 12 practical Florida fruits, plus 13 adventurous discoveries, for families in North, Central and South Florida and the Keys.

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Founding Family price: $29 for the first 100 families. Regular price becomes $49 afterward.

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Why this guide exists

Most Florida families have no idea what abundance is possible in their own yard

The same square of grass that costs you a Saturday every week can hand you a bowl of mulberries in March, bananas in August, and a reason for your kids to run out the door barefoot.

Nothing about that requires a farm. It requires a few well-chosen plants, some mulch, and a family willing to step outside together. This guide helps you choose the right first fruits for your region, plant them where they will thrive, and grow them in a way that is safe for children and good for the land.

“He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season.”

Psalm 1:3

Matthew Nadu holding his baby son as he reaches for ripe papayas in their Florida backyard food forest — **Our backyard.** Picking papayas together: this is what the guide is for.

Guide page 4: Your lawn can become a fruitful home, with mulberry, kumquat and fig — Page 04 · Your lawn can become a fruitful home

Step one

Florida is not one growing climate. It is four.

A fig that thrives in Tallahassee struggles in Miami. A mango that thrives in Miami will not survive a Gainesville winter. Every fruit in the guide is rated for your part of the state, in the ground.

N · North Florida

Pensacola to Gainesville & Ocala

Real winters, several nights in the 20s most years. Fig, loquat and mulberry country.

C · Central Florida

Orlando, Tampa Bay, Sarasota

A few frosty mornings and a hard freeze every several years. The widest range of all: temperate and tropical.

S · South Florida

Fort Myers, Naples, Miami

Frost is rare to absent. Mango, starfruit, avocado and the full tropical range.

K · The Keys

Key Largo to Key West

Follows the South Florida guidance, with salt and wind to plan around.

Inside the 44 pages

Everything a family needs to choose, plant and enjoy its first fruits

A field guide, not a textbook. Read the first eight pages once, pick three fruits, and start in the next ninety days.

Sculpted-paper illustration of the twelve family fruits from the guide — The twelve foundations, as sculpted-paper specimens

The 12 Family Fruit Foundations. Two-page profiles for mulberry, banana, mango, guava, Barbados cherry, kumquat, avocado, passionfruit, fig, loquat, papaya and starfruit.
13 Adventure Garden fruits. Shorter cards for the fruit you can't buy, with an honest fit rating for each region.
The Twelve at a Glance. Which fruits are a Great Fit, Possible with Protection or Not Recommended In-Ground where you live.
Choose Your First Three. A quick win, a family favorite and an adventure for your region.
Your Soil Is the First Food Forest. Mulch, compost, groundcovers, chop-and-drop and the job every companion plant can do.
Kids' Fruit Hunter Missions. Eight real jobs sized for small hands, each with a badge.
Simple Chemical-Free Principles. Seven principles and a step-by-step ladder for when something is eating your plant.
Your 90-Day Family Action Plan. Six short phases with check boxes, from mapping the sun to sharing the first harvest.

Real pages, not a sample chapter

A look at the guide

Pages shown at reduced size. The PDF is US Letter and prints cleanly.

Guide page 4: Your lawn can become a fruitful home — Page 04 · From lawn to fruitful home

Guide page 9: Your soil is the first food forest, with a soil cross-section — Page 09 · Your soil is the first food forest

Page 12 · A fruit profile: mulberry

Layer two

Then the fruit your family has never tasted

Illustration of kids' Fruit Hunter missions from the guide — Eight missions for the kids: Sun Mapper, Seed Detective, Mulch Crew, Pollinator Patrol, Water Keeper.

Illustration of mulch, compost and roots in Florida sand — Soil, honestly: Florida sand is a starting point, not a dead end.

Illustration of three young fruit trees growing over ninety days — Ninety days, six phases: look, choose, prepare, plant, tend, celebrate.

Is it for your family?

It's for you if

You live in Florida and want fruit growing at home, even if you've never grown anything.
You want a clear, regional answer to "what should we plant first?"
You want your kids outside, tasting things that never show up at the grocery store.
You want to grow without synthetic herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers.
You have a patio, a small yard, a standard lot or acreage, and want to start this season.

Honest limits

It's not

A substitute for a custom property design. Irrigation, grading, food forest zones or an HOA plan is a site consultation, not a PDF.
A complete manual for every fruit in Florida. It's a focused start: twelve foundations, thirteen adventures.
Medical or nutrition advice.

Watch

See it growing

Want it on your family bookshelf?

Join the list for the first hardcover edition and school or church bulk-interest updates. The digital guide is available now; the hardcover is a future edition with no release date set.

Questions families ask

What exactly do I receive?

A 44-page digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout. It reads well on a phone or tablet and prints cleanly on US Letter paper.

Which part of Florida does it cover?

All of it. Every fruit is rated for North, Central, and South Florida and the Keys, and the guide shows you how to find your own yard's warmest and coldest spots.

We've never grown anything. Is this too advanced?

No. The Choose Your First Three tool picks a quick win, a family favorite and an adventure for your region, and the 90-Day Family Action Plan walks you through it.

Does the guide use chemicals?

No. Every care list follows Bring Back Eden's standard: no synthetic herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers. Fertility comes from mulch, compost, biology, companion plants and thoughtful design.

Why is it $29 now and $49 later?

The Founding Family price of $29 is for the first 100 families. Regular price becomes $49 afterward. There is no timer.

Can I get a refund?

Because the guide is delivered instantly, all sales are final. If your download fails or the file won't open, email grow@bringbackeden.co and we'll make it right.

What if my yard needs more than a guide?

Book a site consultation. Matthew walks your property, maps the best zones for fruit and leaves you with a recap and next steps.

Founding Family edition

Pick three fruits. Plant them well.

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