Starting food forest from bare compact clay soil, do i start with wood chip mulch or cover crop to start building soil?

I’m moving to a house that has weed fabric with landscape rock on top in the yard which i plan to remove when i move in next month, if i want to covert it into a food forest system with some space for annual vegetables, do you recommend i just broadcast cover crop to get it started or sheet mulch with cardboard, compost/manure and wood chips? Id like to do both cover crop and wood chip mulch but i dont know what the best strategy is, or even how to do both at the same time. I’m in zone 6a, front range, colorado