When you look at a forest it’s easy to see a wall of green. But as you spend more time with it your eyes start to see and recognize the different layers, different species, different shades.

Whether you decided on an Oak Savannah, Recovering Forest, or Mature Forest from the last video, each of these have 7 layers in them that work together and play their part in the fertility of the overall system.

Fertility here I’m using as the aliveness and regeneration of the whole. Your creativity, abundance, impact.

If you read my book ‘Regenerative Business’ then you may remember that one of Nature’s principles is biodiversity. Biodiversity creates a strong, resilient system, and homogeneity causes weakness.

A forest isn’t just a mono crop of 1 type of tree and nothing else. It is a diverse network of many plants, trees, species, that are collaborating.

In a traditional food forest, there are 7 layers that all work together.

And by layers, I’m talking actual physical layers that are taking up 3-D space. So instead of acres and acres of corn taking up only 1 grassy layer, there are 7 stacking layers that are cohabitating 1 space.