Food Forest
At the Permaculture Sydney Institute of Australia we designed a food forest in collaboration with the director and owner of the land.
The creation of the food forest has many benefits to the environment as well as people:
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it will provide food for the inhabitants of the farm and the community and for the Valley’s next generations;
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it reduces greenhouse gas pollution and C02;
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it provides food, shelter corridors and habitat to animals and wildlife;
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it guarantees regeneration of the landscape, improving soil and carbon;
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it allows rehydration of the landscape, slowing water from running off site.
As the design displays, trees are grouped into climatic and similar type:
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deciduous fruit and nut trees (brown section on the plan);
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citrus (yellow trees on the plan);
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mediterranean section (the olive green trees on the plan);
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sub-tropical and tropical (the dark green on the plan).
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