Increase soil biodiversity for your garden๐ณโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ด๐ฉโ๐พ๐ฒ
๐๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐’๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅฆ
Food Forests save the planet ๐๏ธ
What are you waiting for? Start planting one!
A peer-reviewed study in npj Biodiversity (Nature) just compared soil life in 15 food forests across Belgium and the Netherlands with nearby croplands, grasslands and forests. See Planting food forests can increase soil biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of Northwest Europe
The results
Food forest soils look fundamentally different from agricultural soils and much closer to forest soils. We’re talking:
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100ร more isopods than cropland
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16ร more millipedes than grassland
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14ร more mites than cropland
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Higher fungal diversity, more earthworms, richer bacterial communities
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ.
This matters because soil organisms drive nutrient cycling, carbon storage and plant health.
Destroy them โ as industrial agriculture does โ and you’re farming on life support.
Restore them, and the system starts healing itself.
Food forests are more than a niche hobby.
They’re a land use transition with measurable, peer-reviewed ecological outcomes. And we now have the science to prove it.
๐๐ผ Are you planning to have a food forest? If yes: how would you like it to look like?
There is nothing more powerful than nature! ๐ฑ
It is free technology
It can self-heal
It can expand for free
It can replicate
It cleans water
It creates oxygen
It provides shelter for wildlife
It produces food and materials
Louis De Jaeger lives in Brussels, Belgium.
Louis De Jaeger, ๐ณ Food Forest & Landscape Designer ๐ Award-winning filmmaker & Author ๐ Commensalist & Eat More Trees & Food Forest Institute & Ten Lives๐ 40u40
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