is permaculture/food forest adverse to cutting trees at all, or is itSculpting the forest space to allow light penetration mimics the conditions that would prevail if a large tree crashed and created an opening. We then mimic the natural regeneration process selecting varieties we like.
permissable to clear some for letting sunlight reach crops,
or just what exactly does the principles of "food forestry" consider to beDave Jacke's Edible Forest Gardens will offer you a broader perspective regarding food production around trees. Permaculture is a "design" science based on observing and mimic-ing natural systems and using the successful examples of eons of evolution. It doesn't matter so much whether we call it Permaculture or not. What matters is the overall health and connectedness of the elements in the total design and how well we are cared for by it.
permaculture?
I live in a very forested area and I have been clearing small plots and building gardens. I also have chickens, and find that they naturally prefer to stay in wooded or at least areas with lots of shelter from overhead, so I am going to incorporate that into any containment areas I set up for them in the future. right now they free range entirely. the gardens in my zone 1 area are all terraced on a slope of around 20*, but my main production beds for my market garden are on a clearing on a flat spot at the end of a nice slope, and that is where the tree clearing is taking place. A pond is being installed above the garden, so i will have gravity feed water for irrigation.--
i guess i'm just getting confused about whether what i am doing is considered permaculture or not- and i have not taken classes but have the mollison book and am trying to model my 160 acre homestead around those ideas.
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