Make your Garden a Food Forest

A walk through the forest reveals a diversity of plants growing in a seemingly mad jumble, some in clusters, others farther apart, few of them alike, and none of them standing alone. Fallen leaves form a soft thick carpet, food for beetles, worms, colonies of ants, networks of fungi, a whole universe below ground. No one fertilizes, no one weeds… Now what if I told you that your little home garden, whether you have a yard, a terraced slope, or a box full of dirt, is really a miniature edible forest?