T-A-Wycoff

T-A-Wycoff OP t1_iye4e5a wrote

Quite to the contrary the poster of this comment is very wrong you can in fact eat many trees you can eat the inner bark of many trees you can eat the leafs and early seed pods of many trees many trees produce grain and calories at the same rate of barley or rye.

This is before any improvement work is done.

There are fruit trees that produce large amounts of sugars good for flavoring and cooking, there are trees that produce edible seeds like beech walnut acorn hackberry and many more, there are trees that produce edible leaves like mulberry, redbub, and cedar.

Bigger plants make more energy more energy means more food.

Even wood can be turned into a sustainable source of protein and fat by using it to feed fungi or insects.

Also fire doesn't kill forests that are cared for properly, every forest type protects itself in different ways, if you trees burn or die it is simply becuse you used the wrong type of trees

Classic farming is something that you can only put a little effort in because the system is small, with agroforestry you can continue to get sustainable sources of food through the whole year at only the cost of effort 👌

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T-A-Wycoff OP t1_iy4irmc wrote

Ally Cropping provides about 75% as much grain as a standard field with other harvests available at other times of the year, an agroforest has lots of small harvests that provide food in the long term for small communities.

The forest provides habitat for edible wildlife, and fungus that store up calories over time

The other thing is that a mature forest produces a larger harvest the an annual field becuse of the larger photosynthetic surface. The trees are big and tall they catch more light from less space and create a matrix to grow food. Kinda like a tent compared to a sky scrapper.

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