A food forest is a diverse planting of edible and beneficial plants that mimic the layers found in a forest. Food forests contain plants at multiple levels with specific characteristics that support each other to function as a whole system.
Food forests provide food, fiber, and medicine for people and habitat for animals, insects, and birds. Having a variety of plants growing also creates root systems and microbial communities that cycle nutrients and sequester carbon, and the organic matter and roots in the soil can help with water management.
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