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If we humans weren't doing agriculture all over the place, or if we weren't here at all, much of the world would revert quite quickly to forest and bumble along quite happily running on sunlight. We can follow that example...
FEATURES OF THE FOREST
What is a forest?
Input Energy: sunlight
Other Inputs: water, visits from animals, birds and inputs through the network of life of which it's a part.
Waste to be dealed with: none
Yields: many and varied, materials, food, fuel, shade, habitat, beauty
Interconnections: every element of the forest is connected with many others
Communications: many of the elements communicate and trade nutrients amongst themselves, key mycelial network.
Stacking: the forest world is a 3D world (at least), instead of two dimensional fields of one crop we have many layers of activity
Resilience: the forest is resistant to drought, flood, disease and pests.
Succession:
Pathways
Cycling
Edge
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