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,… Continue reading The post 3 Ways to Invest in Community Capitals with Apples appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Fall Into Balance appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Black History Month 2019- Seeds of Survival appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Major Take-Aways from an Agroecology Webinar: Part 1 appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Celebrating February in the Food Forest! appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Starting Anew appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post FREE RESOURCE- Interactive School Activity appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post SWALE-the floating food forest- supported by the USDA Forest Service appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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… Continue reading The post Food Forests as Habitat for Species Conservation appeared first on Community Food Forests.| Community Food Forests
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.… Continue reading| Community Food Forests
Collaboratively growing & harvesting food in forest-like ecosystems| Community Food Forests
SARE Partnership Grants/Sustainable Community Grants Partnership Grants are reserved for agricultural service providers–extension staff, nonprofits, consultants, state departments of agriculture, and others working in the agricultural community–who want to conduct on-farm demonstrations, research, marketing, and other projects with farmers as active cooperators. Partnership Grant: http://www.nesare.org/Grants/Get-a-Grant/Partnership-Grant Simply Organic 1% Fund Simply… Continue reading| Community Food Forests
