Permaculture Lens
One way of reading Ediblescapes as a living edible forest garden.
Station

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Functions

Explore how one element in the garden can provide many functions, including food, shade, mulch, habitat, beauty, and learning.
Permaculture poster showing one tree providing multiple functions in the Ediblescapes garden

About this station

In permaculture, one element can serve many functions. A tree may offer food, shade, mulch material, beauty, habitat, and a place for learning or gathering. This station helps visitors notice that good design is not only about adding more things, but about choosing and caring for elements that contribute in many ways. Ediblescapes grows stronger when each part of the garden gives back to the whole system.

A question to consider

What different functions can one plant or element offer in this garden?

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This station belongs to the Permaculture trail, but Ediblescapes can also be explored through other interpretive pathways — from syntropic practice and agroecology to living biology, biocultural food knowledge and commons-based community care.