Food Forests: All-You-Can-Eat and Coming to a City Near You Consider it a modern take on the legendary tale of Johnny Appleseed. Vancouver, B.C., has announced plans to plant food forests, with over 150,000 fruit and nut trees on city streets, in parks, and on city-owned lands in the next eight years, reports the Vancouver Sun . At the moment, the city has about 600 fruit and nut trees on city streets, and another 425 can be found in the city's parks, community gardens, and pocket orchards. "Street trees play an important role in helping Vancouver adapt to climate change, manage stormwater run-off, support biodiversity, and even provide food," Mayor Gregor Robertson said in a statement about the food forests to the city's council last week. It's that last factor that matters to hunger advocates: Fruit and nut trees are basically free food forests. Food banks are practically synonymous with processed, prepackaged food—and for good reason: It doesn't spoil; it's easy to transport, and it's cheap to buy. Related Stories on TakePart:
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest | TakePart - News, Culture, Videos and Photos That Make the World Better Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest. “This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. That the plan came together at all is remarkable on its own. MORE: Amazing Apple Powered Lamp
Edible Forest Gardens Food Forest Open Source Hub :: What | Why | How As a species we have the ability to truly live in harmony and mutual support with nature. This open source hub (and all the associated pages) will continue to evolve indefinitely as an ongoing demonstration of how to do that through food forest creation. It includes the following sections: A food forest is, as the name implies, a forest of food. The goal of this gardening and land management system is to mimic a woodland ecosystem with companion planting of edible trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals grown in a succession of layers. Fruit and nut trees are usually the canopy/overstory, while below is the understory of berry shrubs and edible ground plantings. Food forests mimic nature, are outstanding examples of earth stewardship, and arguably the most natural and sustainable food production method available. Creating the One Community food forest will begin in the first year and continue indefinitely through a process we will share in complete detail here. (Bb) = BAMBOO (Tr) – TREES
Micro Forest Garden Following on from designing a microforest garden recently, it was time to realise the design! Harris led the charge, helped by forest garden interns Minoru and Kelly, as well as all the students of the forest garden design course. This micro forest garden was to be established on a very compacted piece of ground that had formerly been a road. Yikes. As with many plantings on this crazy patch of land of ours (read: everywhere except the creekflat), it was time to get out the crowbar to dig the holes… but it all turned out splendidly! Conceptual group design for the microforest garden, done during the course by students The final design. The site, shortly after it ceased being a road in Spring 2011… A year later, during the microforest garden install… Paths and beds in, it’s time for the plantathon The particular parameters of this site include that, in a heavy rain event, there is a large amount of surface runoff due to the compaction uphill. But who knows what the future will bring.
Grow a 100-Year-Old Self-Sustainable Food Forest in Your Backyard in Just 10 Years Do you dream of a mini-forest in your backyard? What would you need? A minimum of 100 sq. m. plot. Most of the world we live in today was once forest, our natural habitat for millions of years. Now surrounded by cities and agriculture, humans are no longer living in their “natural” habitat, argues a forest-building engineer named Shubhendu Sharma. But we can recreate little chunks of that habitat in just ten years our own backyards, workplaces and public spaces, he explains in the Ted Talk below: Shubhendu Sharma was an industrial engineer for Toyota hired to offset some of the carbon emissions of the company’s factories. His solution was to plant mini forests right next door. Sharma’s forests grow 10 times faster, are 100 times more biodiverse and 30 times more lush than typical reforestation projects. He used his model for manufacturing as many cars as possible per square feet of factory space and applied it to growing trees. “We start with soil. You can follow us on Instagram HERE
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Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month This man’s forest garden produces tons of food, while practically tending itself! Historically, farms and forests have been at odds. Conventional wisdom says we have to cut down the forest to make way for agriculture. But a growing movement called agro-forestry “capitalizes” on the free services forests provide farmers and gardeners. Not only do trees protect more delicate edible plants from the elements and extreme weather, they provide nutrients, water, pest control and pollination services. Although you might not find all your traditional annual veggies in a forest garden, you will discover hundreds of new varieties of edible plants you never knew existed, that are often more nutrient-dense and flavorful. And if you choose your plants carefully, they will propagate themselves each year and live symbiotically among the hundreds of diverse species around them, requiring no tilling, planting, fertilizing, weeding or watering. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
The forest garden with 500 edible plants that requires only a few hours of work per month Historicamente, fazendas e florestas estão em conflito. A sabedoria convencional diz que temos que cortar a floresta para abrir caminho para a agricultura. Mas um movimento crescente chamado agro-florestal “capitaliza” nos serviços gratuitos que as florestas fornecem aos agricultores e jardineiros. As árvores não apenas protegem as plantas comestíveis mais delicadas dos elementos e do clima extremo, mas também fornecem nutrientes, água, controle de pragas e serviços de polinização. Embora você possa não encontrar todos os seus vegetais anuais tradicionais em um jardim florestal, você descobrirá centenas de novas variedades de plantas comestíveis que nunca soube que existiam, que geralmente são mais densas em nutrientes e saborosas. E se você escolher suas plantas com cuidado, elas se propagarão a cada ano e viverão simbioticamente entre as centenas de espécies diversas ao seu redor, sem necessidade de arar, plantar, fertilizar, capinar ou regar. Adaptado de Return to Now
Edible Landscaping Plant Sale: Buy plants online from our garden center and plant nursery We will be closing at noon on the 24th, and closed Christmas Day, December 25th. We use no herbicides on our plants. All of our products are not derived from or contain any Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Our plants are hand-weeded. We have been paying a living wage for over 1 year. enjoying the harvest You can buy trees, shrubs, herbs, and an array of garden plants on this site or pickup directly from our fruit tree and garden nursery. To start looking through the plants that we offer choose one of the links in the green bar at the top of the page. **Make sure when you place your order online you get an automatically generated confirmation number.. it will start 02.... if you do not get back an email there could be 1 of 2 issues. Landscapers please call us or email for trade discounts. Orchard Map Map Key The following is a wonderful article about persimmons, BY GREG COPPA one of our clients.edibleRhody, Persimmons A note from a client: Thanks so much for making the trip Michael.