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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I invite you to take part in our research study on urban food forests at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. This survey is part of my master’s thesis at the Joint Center Urban Systems. The...Looks like the Baltimore area will be getting another food forest and the movement keeps growing!
Havre de Grace Council approves 'food forest' for Todd Park area
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Havre de Grace's Todd Park, more commonly known as Todd Field off of Seneca Avenue, is set to get a "food forest" filled with fruit and nut trees as well as other edible plants.