Step Into the Food Forest

As I learn more about food forests / forest gardens / perennial vegetables and build out the food forest at www.GlobalVillageFarms.org this song is just sharing a recent passion.

Lyrics

Just as nature intended
Polycultures of mutual aid
Stone fruit like the sun
Small paw paw like some shade

Fungi help pass the signals
Microb parties in the dirt
Clover stops sneaky grass bullies
Brings nitrogen from air to root

Step into the food forest
Beyond anthropocentricity
Bounty not just for us two legged
Smell the multiplicity

Comfrey pulls up various minerals
From the darkest deepest earth
Laying leaves down to rot
Here decay knows its worth

Vines climb across each layer
Aromatic herbaceous attractors
Shrubs fill and leaf and fruit
Blooming bright distractors

Step into the food forest
Beyond anthropocentricity
Bounty not just for us two legged
Smell the multiplicity

Observing and interacting
Energy catching and storing
Integrating with small slow steps
Depleted marginal restoring

Monocultures of mechanized mayhem
Replaced by poly mixes
One piece of many changes needed
Human problems, nature’s fixes

Step into the food forest
Beyond anthropocentricity
Bounty not just for us two legged
Smell the multiplicity

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