The Food Forest: How to plan, plant, and protect a food forest
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There's an important book from PFAF (Plants for a Future): Plants for Your Food Forest: 500 Plants for Temperate Food Forests and Permaculture Gardens.
It focuses on the attributes of plants suitable for "food forests," what each of us can contribute to a food forest ecosystem, including carbon sequestration, and the kinds of nourishing plant-based foods they yield.
A "food forest" is a form of regenerative farming, a designed ecosystem modelled on nature, with the aim of growing food and sequestering carbon at the same time.
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The book suggests that community and small-scale food forests can provide a real alternative to intensive industrialized agriculture (harmful monoculture) and help combat many other inter-related environmental crises that threaten the future of life on Earth. More: pfaf.org
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What's a "food forest"?
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As a forest it will consist of plants that occupy different layers, typically a:
- canopy layer
- shrub layer
- herb layer
- and climbers.
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The choice of what to grow in a food forest is challenging. It is not simply a matter of deciding what would be good to eat and planting the corresponding food plants in beds alongside rows or patches of woodland.
Most books about food forests, woodland gardening, or carbon farming concentrate on the design principles involved. The focus of this book is the plants, their characteristics and personalities, what they have to offer a food forest ecosystem, as well as what kinds of foods they yield.
PFAF has selected over 500 plants that provide a mix of different growing conditions, plant size and structure, type of food, and contribution to a food forest ecosystem.
There is also a quick-reference table of the key characteristics. The featured plants are arranged in sections corresponding to Forest Layer:
- Shrubs
- Groundcover Shrubs
- Trees
- Herbaceous Plants
- Herbaceous Groundcover Plants
- Running Bamboos
- Bulbs
- Climbers.
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