Elfwoods

Elfwoods is the name given to kind of woods that are managed as liveable places that produce enough food to maintain a significant population.

These woods are an Elven alternative to agriculture. Where humans remove forests to make way for farmland, Elves can shape forests to be as productive as farmland while maintaining it as a forest. Think of the planting of many fruit trees, amongst others. The process of doing so is so slow that no human would ever have the patience for it, while long-lived Elves have no problem doing so.

Elfwoods are typically inhabited by Elves, but that doesn't mean that you can't have humans living with the Elves in these woods, or that Elves can't live on ordinary farmland.