Sziasztok!
First of all apologies for the Hungarian speakers here. Unfortunately my Hungarian is not yet good enough to write texts like this. And also sorry if I misunderstood anyone's comment or answer.
Our forest garden is mainly my project, so that's why I reply, instead of Balázs, but he will translate this when necessary.
What I mean with 'forest garden' is the vision pioneered by Robert Hart and Martin Crawford for the UK, and by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier in the US. So, a food production system with perennial polycultures, that is mimicking the local ecosystems.
So maybe we are working with different definitions, Martindian!
It would indeed be silly to copy the rainforest ecosystem, but we can copy our forest systems with crops that are growing in our climate. And I think the Hungarian climate will support a lot of interesting species, and a wider range than the British forest gardeners currently can grow.
Our forest garden (1 hectare) will mainly consist of a forest in the mid-succession stage, but also some mature forest patches.
For our forest garden I will so both look at species described for the US and the UK. But that's the reason I would like to get in contact with other forest gardeners and perennial plantgrowers here in Hungary, because I am myself a bit out of my own ecosystem here
(I am from the Netherlands.)
Again apologies for my English reply, so please let me know if anything is unclear.
Elise