How to deal with landscape fabric?

I’m a pretty novice gardener and I’m trying to fix up my mom’s property while using permaculture principles. The garden beds I’m starting with have a layer of bark on top, then a few inches of good dirt, then some layers of landscape fabric on top of the rest of the soil.

When planting this year, I just cut away a small hole for each plant so they could root in the rest of the soil. But the more I work in the soil, the more I just want to get rid of all the fabric all-together. The dirt above it is pretty good and lively, while the dirt below looks less good (kinda clay-ish in spots).

My big concern is that digging up the whole garden bed will disturb everything going on in the soil. Is there a way to deal with the fabric without disturbing the soil or should I just bite the bullet and dig it all out?

Thanks for the help 🙂