On a garden tour that I took last semester for my biology class, I was able to find this small gray mouse, which rolled into itself like a ball, settled in the red wood chips behind a discarded small piece of wood in the food forest. Seeing this, I was amazed with how this creature was able to get comfortable in an environment often populated with humans. Thanks to the awareness of the groundskeeper, this landscape was created in the spirit of animal friendliness. The method of permaculture adopted, the food forest, provides cover and a refuge where animals, such as mice, can find food and…