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Root farming is the process of farming rooted dirt and hanging roots.

Rooted dirt farming

To farm rooted dirt, you can use a moss farm to produce unlimited azaleas. Regardless of what block an azalea is planted on, when it grows it turns the block it grows on into rooted dirt. You can also buy 2 rooted dirt for 1 emerald from a wandering trader.

This process can be automated with redstone to generate azaleas by bonemealing a moss block, then bonemealing those azaleas to grow an azalea tree and convert the moss block into rooted dirt. Oak logs are a common side-product of such farms.

Here is an example rooted dirt farm for Java Edition:

Here is an example rooted dirt farm for Bedrock Edition:

Hanging root farming

All you need to do is place a rooted dirt and bonemeal it to produce a hanging root, which will drop if you harvest it with a Silk Touch tool or shears. You can automate the process with a redstone clock connected to a dispenser facing into the rooted dirt block.