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When you walk in the forest, you are in an ecosystem because it has living entities: trees, moss, fungi, and you as well. These are interacting with each other and with the environment: the wind, sun, soil, and water. This is an ecological system called a forest. A prairie is also an ecosystem, and so too is a wetland.

I haven't tried every apple, but I have tried a few. My work at the Edible Biodiversity Conservation Area had me taste-testing thousands of fruits this autumn, including hundreds of heirloom apples. I can genuinely say I am all fed up on apples.

There are still edible mushrooms lingering even though the leaves are yellowing, the cold is beginning to beg me to put on a light jacket, and the advice of foragers is that the prime season is already over.