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FREE RESOURCE- Interactive School Activity

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…

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Cathie May 23, 2017 February 13, 2018Resources design, food forest, school activity

SWALE-the floating food forest- supported by the USDA Forest Service

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…

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Cathie May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017Community Food Forest Sites art, food forest, NYC, US Forest Service

Food Forests as Habitat for Species Conservation

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…

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Cathie May 7, 2017 May 7, 2017Food Forest Components bluebird, conservation, food forest, habitat
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