I have studied many ways to create a low maintenance, high diversity and edible yielding property. I’ve found permaculture, bio-intensive and food forest practices to be the best. Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.Forest gardening is a prehistoric method of securing food in tropical areas. In the 1980s, Robert Hart coined the term "forest gardening" after adapting the principles and applying them to temperate climates. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. The term permaculture was developed and coined by David Holmgren, then a graduate student, and his professor, Bill Mollison, in 1978. The word permaculture originally referred to "permanent agriculture", but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture", as it was understood that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming philosophy.It has many branches that include, but are not limited to, ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, and construction. Permaculture also includes integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modelled from natural ecosystems. #permaculture #foodforest #biointensive #agriculture #habitat #sustainability #environment #gardening #organicgardening #perennials #fruittrees #leafygreens #berries #peppers #beans #food #thenewleafproject #nature (at Portland, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLNQDQFATE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1041fpmwjvp8d