Permaculture Lens
One way of reading Ediblescapes as a living food system.
Station
Layers
See how trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, groundcovers, roots, and soil life share one place in a layered edible forest garden.
Permaculture poster showing layered planting in an edible forest garden at Ediblescapes

This station invites visitors to notice Ediblescapes as a layered living system. In permaculture, different plants and life forms can occupy different heights, depths, and roles while sharing the same space. Trees create shade and structure, shrubs and herbs fill middle layers, vines climb, groundcovers protect the soil, and roots work below the surface. Layering helps a garden become more diverse, productive, resilient, and alive.

A question to consider

How many different layers of life can you notice sharing this one place?

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Ediblescapes can be explored through many interconnected ways of reading the garden — including permaculture, syntropic practice, living biology, biocultural food knowledge, agroecology, and commons-based community care.