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…
Background I’m giving a little tribute today to the recovering Nalini Nadkarni, who is an amazing woman and ecologist. She has focused on tropical ecology and the ecology of trees most of her career. Maybe I admire her because my original passion in life was tropical forest ecology and I…
This Thing Called Permaculture Permaculture was a term first coined in the 1970’s by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren to describe techniques they believed supported a more permanent form of agriculture. There is plenty of information available on the web that can provide more information on the history of permaculture…