​​One of the things that became clear to me in planning the chicken food forest is that one must think carefully about what happens to the chicken poop, because too much of it can cause the whole food forest to go quickly off the rails (photo: a fresh item of the topic of discussion).

​Babette’s favorite activity: making dream images.  Here is a dream image of the chicken food forest.  A thicket of shrubs laden with berries and an overstory of fruiting trees, dropping pears, persimmons, mulberries at different times of year.  Chickens scratching the ground for the fallen fruit and hopping on branches to pick fruit themselves.  Some areas with dense green undergrowth like comfrey and other herbs, but also mulchy areas under the trees breeding tasty little bugs.   Lots of contented cackling and clucking.   Chicken owner managing the forest but definitely not spending a lot of time on it once established.  Hopefully chickens still laying their eggs in their nest boxes!