Food forests

In a food forest, you may not be able to see the wood for the fruit, nuts and vegetables.

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14th April, 2012

Food forests. The idea has been catching on in various parts of the world, and has now been taken up by an urban authority on a large scale. In Seattle, Washington, where as a skinny-legged six-year-old I once lived on an island in Puget Sound, the local body has given a Beacon Hill community group a 3ha area of parkland for the creation of a food forest. The idea for this designed planting of productive plants to imitate a forest system started as a project for four permaculture design students. Their original concept was for 5ha, and such was their excitement for the project and its potential ...

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