Use small ponds and hollows (within logs, and piles of rocks and branches, etc.) in every garden bed/throughout a food forest to create habitat. This will lead to an increased level of diversity, and the development of equilibrium.

• Creating habitat within the garden is vital for attracting the diversity of birds, animals and insects needed to create the predator-prey relationship balance required to develop equilibrium within the garden. It is also the activities of these organisms that help develop the fertility of the system.

• The key component to habitat creation is providing a watering hole within the garden. Frog ponds and birdbaths are ideal but you can also place small ponds in every garden bed you create. Something as simple as an ice-cream container buried in the ground with a layer of pebbles and filled with water can achieve this even in small garden beds.

• Another important component is to place things like hollow logs, branches, rocks, etc. in a pile, to create hollows in which small animals and insects can live.