The story behind
My Food Forest

With our app we help food forests, food gardens and agroforestry projects to oversee their green space with pleasure and let it grow.

Our mission

At My Food Forest we believe in the power of food forests: places where people and nature flourish together. With our app we help food forests, food gardens and agroforestry projects to oversee their green space with pleasure and let it grow. Together we are building a future in which healthy food, biodiversity and sustainability go hand in hand.

The team behind the app

My Food Forest was founded by Marinde and Mark, who complement each other perfectly.

Marinde brings knowledge of the land: she came into contact with food forests in 2022, completed a permaculture course and several food forest courses, and volunteered for three years at Voedselbos Benthuizen, Liesbeth van Bemmel's food forest. Mark brings more than twenty years of IT experience, and with it the technical side. Together they are now planting their own food forest in Drenthe.

That combination of green knowledge and technical experience is exactly where My Food Forest came from. From our own experience we saw how hard it is to keep an overview of a food forest, and we decided to build an app that brings everything together in one place.

Marinde Scholman
Co-founder
Marinde came across food forests in 2022, took a permaculture course and several food forest courses, and volunteered at Voedselbos Benthuizen for three years. There she saw how hard it is to keep track of what grows where, and that is how the idea for My Food Forest was born. She brings knowledge from the land into the app and focuses on the user experience, the content and the communication. In early 2026 she and Mark moved to Drenthe, where they are planting their own food forest on 0.6 hectares of former horse pasture.
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Mark Scholman
Co-founder
Mark brings more than twenty years of IT experience and builds the technical side of My Food Forest. From the app and the map to the web portal, he makes sure everything works and that the app grows with what users need. In early 2026 he and Marinde swapped the Randstad for Drenthe, where together they are planting their own food forest on a former horse pasture. That food forest doubles as the app's test garden: Mark tries new features out in practice first, among the trees and shrubs, before they reach users.
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Martijn Thé
Developer
Martijn spent almost twenty years as a software engineer, most of them for Silicon Valley companies. He built firmware for wearables, mobile apps and data platforms for millions of devices. In early 2026 he changed course: he wants his work to help ecosystems thrive. Two mornings a week he has his hands in the soil on farms, where he is also designing a small food forest. At My Food Forest he focuses on the GPS hardware that puts your crops precisely on the map.
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Kim van Roozendaal
Developer
Kim spent almost thirty years in IT before deliberately choosing regenerative agriculture, nature and biodiversity. Since early 2024 she has been co-owner of the Bosvol Smaak food forest in Langbroek, where she works on nature development, soil health, local food production and education, with her feet in the clay and an eye on the bigger picture. At My Food Forest she focuses on the mobile app and the data platform.
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Gerrit Bos
UX designer
Gerrit designs the user experience of the My Food Forest app. With his passion for and affinity with nature and green spaces, he helps the team build a user-friendly, well-thought-out app. He pays particular attention to how the app is used outdoors, in practice. That way the app is not only attractive and clear, but above all pleasant and practical to use.
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What we do

We are developing a user-friendly app that helps you to:

map your crops digitally;
plan and record harvest moments;
gain insight into the maintenance of your food forest;
work together with members, volunteers and harvest subscribers.

Whether you manage a food forest, a food garden or an agroforestry project: My Food Forest grows with you.

Growing together

We are not building My Food Forest alone, but together with the people who work with it every day. We develop the app in close collaboration with food forest owners, volunteers and organisations in the field, so that it truly fits practice. Their experience and feedback make the app better with every step. We also actively seek out collaboration.

Are you involved in a food forest, a training programme, a nursery or an organisation committed to nature-inclusive food production? We would be happy to think with you about how we can strengthen each other. Because only together can we make food forests grow.

Developed with
70+ food forests

For almost two years we tested, talked and worked out with more than 70 food forests what the app should look like. From the map and crop registration to which features belong in which plan and how the price is built up: we tested every choice in practice, together with the people who work with it every day.