What Values Does Your Community Food Forest Have About Celebrating Love? Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, which we have come to know as a holiday associated with love, romance, compassion, and all kinds of relationships, including friendship. However, in my post on Tuesday, I mentioned the ancient festival of Lupercalia, which was…
I have previously posted about SWALE – the floating food forest project in NYC. I did not realize the artist, Mary Mattingly, was an artist-in-residence in the Arts and Humanities Residency Program at the NYC Urban Field Station supported by the US Forest Service. About the program from the website: The…
The 18th and Rhode Island Food Forest in San Francisco, CA was started in 2008 on Portero Hill.
Here is a video of Kevin Bayuk, co-founder, talking about Permaculture Design at the Park:
Bee Keeping in the Food Forest:
Also here are some videos taken over a span of years that show the garden’s progression:
This video is in French taken in 2010:
Also in French taken in 2010:
Taken in 2013:
Can community food forests offer one strategy to create meaningful change? I am writing a chapter on community food forests (CFFs) this morning for potential inclusion in a book on re-enlivenment of cities. Reflecting on the role of CFFs it is evident that the cultural, socioeconomic and political context of…
The funding will help support travel to multiple sites across the US so we can produce a more comprehensive book!
Intro The oldest community food forest on the East Coast is hidden on Parks and Recreation property near downtown Asheville, NC. I’m aging myself by revealing this information, but I was at UNC-Asheville when this food forest was being planned and established and I didn’t even know it!! When I…
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Hazelwood Food Forest in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA is the first community food forest I’m selecting to highlight because sadly it is about to be no more. At least not in physical presence. Hazelwood is an awesome example of a food forest design, but the lease for the…