Having moved into a townhouse community in the DC metro area last year, I appreciate even more what community food forests can offer those living in urban areas. The opportunity for growing collaboratively, meeting others, feeling a sense of community, and more have certainly been longing thoughts on my mind…
Each piece of produce from a food forest or garden offers an opportunity for celebration, discussion, and social connection when we look more closely at how we can use the harvest to create deeper meaning and community fun. Apples trees, while somewhat difficult to grow due to diseases and pests,…
I have been absent from this space for some time now due to multiple changes that were happening in my life. While I am still not quite ready to return with any regularity, seeing as we’re nearing the end of Black History Month and I haven’t posted anything, I feel…
Webinar Overview This is Part 1 of my main take-aways from listening to the Food Secure Canada webinar on Agroecology: Integrating Science, Practice, and Social Justice. If you missed it- you can still watch the recording online and see the pdf of slides here. One point made during the webinar is…
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…
Starting Anew: Natural Rhythms and Cycles A Villard Blanc wakens from winter slumber and stretches towards sunlight as it prepares its growing strategy for spring, looking for what it can grasp and curl around to support its growth.© 2018 C.Bukowski Breaking Dormancy I know it has been a while since…
Simple “Designing a Food Forest” School Activity This activity is not just about designing the food forest, but also getting students to embody the idea. Hope it is helpful to someone! I’ve had two opportunities to use this activity with middle school students and it seemed to go over well…
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…
I am prompted to write this post today after discovering a beautiful blue egg laying out in plain sight below one of the blueberry bushes at our community food forest. The food forest covers a small portion of a much larger area that has a community garden and wilderness area…
This is pretty exciting. Habitat III– the UN’s Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development just finished yesterday in Quito, Ecuador. There was history-making attendance and the New Urban Agenda which has been in the making for the last two years with input from all over the world was approved.…