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RE: Moving Beyond the Traditional 7 Layers of a Food Forest

in #permaculture7 years ago

Whoops, I guess you've been visited by @nateonsteemit out of silliness and failure to pay attention to what account he's logged in with! I'm a serial Messer upper like that, but I don't think it matters this time because this post is awesome and definitely features a regenerative model!

I love it! Naturally, as your forest matures, these things would happen anyways. But this adds the biosecurity of that maturity earlier on. Quite insightful! I've often wondered about this stuff. I've got a big oak that'll probably have to come down eventually and I have considered helping the trunk in the ground and innoculating it with mycelium to add another food and medicine crop, so I'm right there with you. And over (lots of) time, those rocks break down into minerals too!

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lol, thank you! :) I agree but in food forests I see a lot of people managing their forests in a way that prevents these features from naturally being part of the forest.

People often cut down dead trees instead of leaving them as snags. Branches are often hauled away, etc.

In addition to adding these elements at the start of a food forest I also hope by talking about it more people will change how they manage their forests to let it be a bit more wild :)

Getting that oak part way into the ground sounds like a great idea to me!

I appreciate the comment! :)