Why Grow a Food and Medicine Forest?
A Food & Medicine Forest attempts to mimic nature. It provides bio-diverse, perennially growing food and medicine and tools. The benefits of growing a Food & Medicine Forest range from carbon capture to self-reliance to increasing biodiversity. We started converting a small area of Ozark Akerz Regenerative Farm to a Food & Medicine Forest in 2017. We’ve allowed wildflowers and ‘weeds’ to grow and added native species of shrubs, trees and flowers, and perennial food plants. Our goals have been multi-fold. In no specific order, these include:
Subscribe to download the Ozark Akerz Guide to growing your own food & medicine forest and the food, medicine, tools, pollinator habitat and other benefits that are provided by 150 trees, shrubs, vines and flowers. [i] https://www.audubon.org/content/why-native-plants-matter [ii] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-4-july-august/green-life/how-put-your-yard-work-for-climate [iii] https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/values/ You may also like: Video: How a Regenerative Farm Boosts Biodiversity & Conservation
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Ozark Akerz
12/18/2021 09:42:32 am
Thanks Michael,
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