In a Food Forest, Weeds are Your Friends

But those weeds get in the way of your plants and trees, so

CHOP UP YOUR FRIENDS.

(with a hookie knife)

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Weeds are a big part of a food forest at the beginning, unless you sheet mulch everything - and I'm not about to do that. Instead, I rely on the weeds for chop and drop green manure, compost, and mulch. Establishing a food forest takes time, but if you work with nature and incorporate the weeds back into the soil, it will feed your fruit trees. I don't eradicate weeds completely. Instead, I cut them down repeatedly and let them grow back. Later I will plant more biomass plants but for now, the weeds will do just fine.