I am finding that Deep Nourishment requires deep understanding
I am working with my burdock. It only lives two years, and blooms in the summer of the second year. Everyone around me sees it as a weed.
Yet the whole plant is edible. The root is edible, the young leaves are useful greens, and the flower scape can be peeled and cooked.
This weed produces deep roots that can both lossen soil and bring up nutrients.
The plants produce large leaves that crowd out weeds so make it a good cover crop.
It also provides food for predatory insects by providing a home for aphids farmed by ants.
I am currently working on the ant aphid part of the equation. The ants take aphid eggs and move them to the burdock and farm the aphids.
In my garden the ants make there home in my old stack of flower pots. By providing the pots the ants produce a colony. By having the ants the burdock will have a nice group of aphids on it. By having the aphids the fireflies, ladybugs, etc. will come to feed. By having an existing population of predatory insects I do not have major spikes in insects when I plant my vegetables.
Deep Nourishment requires deep understanding. For I am not just taking from the environment, I am working to create an ecosystem that will nourish more than just myself.