Pocket forest

A variety of protocols for site preparation and planting have been developed, all sharing the same underlying principles as the Miyawaki method.

[3] Three is the minimum number of different species of nursery saplings for planting a pocket forest.

Miyawaki developed the method as a means of replenishing forest soils by allowing dead leaves and twigs to decompose in a moist, wood-rotting ecosystem.

[9] This process may be less successful in drier fire ecosystems where nutrients are recycled as ashes.

[10][11] The dense pocket forest forms a capture mechanism for wind-blown embers, dried ground litter is an ignition source, and the multi-layered pocket forest forms a fuel ladder with wildfire risks in urban areas.

A pocket forest has been planted in Danehy Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Pocket Forest made at Parappa , Kerala, India
Fire ecosystem comparison of heat-sterilized soil under white ashes from coals of burning wood, while underground plant structures like grass rhizomes have survived and sprouted beneath the lighter fuel concentration of adjacent burnt duff .