To the aspiring practitioner of permaculture the understory can provide an indispensable set of tools that can be employed to condition our soils, accumulate and distribute minerals and nutrients, to shelter and attract beneficial insects and even deter other insect pests...

In this Journal entry we go down to the understory.  We examine what it can do for us and we take a look at our understory recipe used at the orchard. Related topics covered include founding concepts from Masanobu Fukuoka, Beneficial Insects, Green Manure and plants as soil indicators.