Nature has a zero waste rule and sticks to it. Any and every bit of organic matter, living or dead, is reduced, recycled, repurposed or reused.

A garden, a forest, and a farm are only arbitrary labels. Not all people in all places at all times perceived a garden as a backyard veggie plot, a farm as orderly rows of crops, and a forest as a mysterious wild place for hiking and horror movies. In fact, we modern Western folks are unique among cultures in our narrow categories for garden, farm, and forest, much to the detriment of ourselves and the planet.

Every garden and every farm can be a food forest.