Why are they called Community Food Forests?
Community
Food forests provide a space where a community can grow and function while developing a sense of place. Disconnect between people and place often inhibits civic process and progress. In a community food forest humans are integrated with each other and their landscape rather than separated.
Food
Food is embedded in culture, politics, health and community. Growing food is empowering. It is a basic need transcending race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, socioeconomic status or political affiliation. Food forests offer a way to reconnect people to each other and to a source of food.
Forest
Why the word forest? In their infancy sites might not look like a forest ecosystem, just as an open field does not resemble a forest in early stages of succession. Succession takes time to reach a mature state. Over time these systems will evolve into a replication of the structure and function of a forest ecosystem.
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Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time
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Food forests are urban oases that pack a lot into small spaces, including food production, local cooling and social connections.
www.nytimes.com
Not your typical garden, they can help us reimagine how we produce food in a warming world.
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