A Food Forest Garden - Part 1

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Robert Hart's forest garden

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Education

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• forest
• gardening
• garden
• robert
• hart
• permaculture
• companion
• planting
• plants
• ecology
• environment
• food
• edible
• landscape

[permascience]

Mulch is a soil saviour whatever your climatic zone, from the tropics to cool temperate, it works everywhere to reduce evaporation and build soil quality. There are no natural areas except for deserts that don't have a covering of organic matter and even they can be turned green by the use of it.

[Ninyae1]

permiescience, cheers for putting this up!

[iampeeay01]

Wonderful.. Thanks for the ideas..

[northwestblazinfire]

@suddenlyitsobvious Its ussually opposite, demons are saints and saints are demons. Gaddafis a great example

[suddenlyitsobvious]

Ghandi was just an elite puppet from an elite family formed from a tender age for his role on the world stage and involved in all kinds of social engineering projects. In South-Africa during the early 1900s he was actually VERY INVOLVED in getting support for drafting the relatively large Indian population for the war effort.

If society calls someone a saint, rest assured he's not. I would have prefered seeing a beautiful garden and be spared the mention of all these fake inspirators.

[TheBerserker50]

@TheBIGgourami monsanto ceo

[TheBIGgourami]

Who thumbed this down?

[hermanosdeamor]

EDEN´S GARDEN

[omoshiroii]

@djohnson1987 the mulch comes from and goes to the same area. Plants draw in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen while holding and storing carbon compounds and some of them are specialised in trapping nitrogen such as legumes family. These carbon and nitrogen materials are transformed to fertility. This is what i think is part of the complex cycle of the whole ecosystem. For a barren or non-fertile area it might be necessary to bring in the fertility from other places.

[djohnson1987]

How is fertility built up in one area via continuous mulching without depleting another area of it's minerals through harvesting of its plants for mulch?

[NerdFangs]

@sukumvit I'm sad to hear that. This garden was a treasure

[sukumvit]

@dharmapunk777 Unfortunately Robert Hart is now deceased, and his original forest garden was shamefully left to run to ruin and became an overgrown jungle! There was a move to restore it to it's former state but I'm not sure whether it came to anything... It is a shame as this site should be kept as a model for forest gardening for future generations!