Episode-2587- Food and Farm Forestry for Global Security

Today’s show was actually requested by none other than Geoff Lawton. I made only one modification changing it from Food Forestry to Food and Farm Forestry, simply to be more clear. When we think of food forests we think 90% about fruits and nuts, then about 10% about under story including the shrub and herbaceous layers. The reality though is forests can provide among many other things, food, fiber, fodder, construction materials, medicine and more. Additionally we need to reconsider what we consider a “forest”. Most would figure a forest must be in some way a square, rectangle, trapezoid, triangle, … Continue reading →