Forest Food Web: Knowledge for Designing Edible Forest Gardens. By Filip Tkaczyk Understanding the function of a forest food web can greatly enhance your effectiveness in creating, maintaining and improving a permaculture edible forest garden (a designed community of mutually-beneficial edible, medicinal, and utilitarian plants that mimics a natural forest ecosystem).
A food web is a series of elements and organisms related by predator-prey, consumer, or resource interactions - the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. To begin, it helps to break a forest food web down to its basic parts. The Basics of a Food Web You can begin to understand a food web by recognizing the major categories of elements and their functions. Clean water is vital to the life of many organisms in the forest food web, especially all of the plants. The fourth, and most important component of a food web are the living organisms. Applying The Knowledge So now that you know the elements, how can you apply the knowledge? The Living Soil The Producers. The Integration of Living Space with Agriculture. Subhash Palekar. The Weed's Network. Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association.
Zero Farming by Kailash Murthy.