Food Forest Plants for Hotter Conditions

A tropical and sub-tropical food forest is a cornucopia of luscious food, thriving by drawing carbon from the atmosphere to support trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and climbers that produce fruits, seeds, oils, greens, flowers, drinks, and herbs. There are thousands of known food plants that thrive in hot climate zones, discovered and improved from time immemorial, before the Agricultural Revolution brought about deforestation and land degradation to provide grains to feed city-states. Our …