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Martin Crawford’s Forest Garden Biodiversity , Conservation , Consumerism , Deforestation , Economics , Food Forests , Food Shortages , Fungi , Land , Plant Systems , Regional Water Cycle , Rehabilitation , Society , Trees — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor June 8, 2011 Yesterday we were talking about the great need to transition our agriculture (and our culture for that matter) to be based in systems (or integrated) thinking, rather than the segregated, reductionist monoculture mind set we have today. There’s perhaps no better example of systems-based thinking in practice than a well developed biodiverse ‘forest garden’ (or what is called a food forest in many places).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera "Drumstick tree" and variants thereof redirect here. This name is also used for the golden shower tree ( Cassia fistulosa ).

Moringa oleifera