I always consider the most refined state of any art to have the least equipment, involvement, and time invested to get desired results. Food forests are no different. In Mortal Tree I have decided the aim is to remove the barriers that block my designs from those of nature, allowing them meet happily in the middle (or somewhere thereabouts) by removing unnecessary tools and tasks.
Using the plants themselves as tools for tillage, weeding, and the like, is the first step in effective food forest creation. Where do we go from there? Blades.
Take a moment to envision the lush jungle food forests of the south where, as I am told, all you need is a machete and forest and you’re good to garden the most abundant food supply imaginable.
But with blade in hand how the heck do you use it? It certainly helps if you have a high quality blade to begin with too. Which one is that for you? Over the next few days I’ll cover four different ‘blades’ I use for food forest creation, and as many of their finer points as I can, from my experience, offer.
If you’re new, and not familiar with how I use plants as tools, check out the infographic and other info on this page.
Mortal Tree 
Looking forward to subsequent posts.
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Thank you. I’m pretty pleased with how the scythe and today’s hori hori post have been received. Two more coming. I have a guess which one you’ll like most, but if you don’t mind I’ll wait to let you judge that.
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Okay, let’s see 😊
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