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

in #permaculture7 years ago

I really like this idea and have always loved the idea of growing food in a “food forest” way or, you know, how stuff grows naturally 🙃

I’ll be honest though, I didn’t realize there were a specific “7 layers” and feel your additions just make sense. We as humans can make a beautiful food forest but leaving out the non living things you have mentioned here means we still are interfering in a way.

Clearly some things won’t work for some that will work for others, but I think habitats that welcome beneficial animals and decaying logs/stumps that just add beneficial nutrients to the soil are well, beneficial.

Thanks for this right up, your blog is very well done!

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Thank you! :) Yeah, the layers were in some of the first books discussing the idea and have been used since. I have seen some people expand them to include wetlands and aquatic plants but so far I had not seen anyone expand them to include the non-living forest elements.

Appreciate the comment! :)