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Wikipedia defines a food forest, also called a forest garden, as a diverse planting of edible plants that attempts to mimic the ecosystems and patterns found in nature. Food forests are three-dimensional designs, with life extending in all directions – up, down, and out.
Interestingly,
there is no mention of a fungal layer in this definition, but we’ll just assume it can be fitted
into the layer 5 defined in Permaculture: A Beginners Guide by Graham
Burnett, which contains this diagram:
Last year, I
wrote about another climate change mitigation possibility, Agroforestry This program has the double objective of food production and restoration of the a deforested land’s vital carbon sequestration capability.
