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…