Seattle's Urban Food Forest Park!
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Published 2020-04-24
Take a journey through Permaculture Food Forests in our upcoming online course: Permaculture Food Forests 101, provided through Oregon State University's Professional and Continuing Education:
pace.oregonstate.edu/foodforests
Lead instructor:
Marisha Auerbach, www.permaculturerising.com
Brief course description:
Permaculture food forests are intentionally cultivated forest gardens that contain native and cultivated plants and provide yields for humans and ecological functions.
Essentially, it's a low maintenance forest that's edible, medicinal and that enhances your local environment!
What are the Benefits of a Food Forest?
A food forest is a sustainable and natural way to produce healthy and organic food.
By learning how to tend your specific soil and develop plant communities you'll be able to improve your yield and provide nourishing and healthy food for you and your family.
About the Permaculture Food Forests Courses
This program is offered in two parts. The first section of this course focuses on the context of permaculture food forests. You will learn about the multiple considerations for creating a food forest in your specific climate. Videos, articles and exercises will help you discover plants for your food forest and learn how to build relationships between them to increase productivity.
The second section of this course is an instructor led Permaculture Food Forest Practicum. The assignments in this course will guide you step by step through the design of a food forest on the site of your choice. Worksheets and a template for your design will help you research the necessary information for a successful food forest in your region.
You can choose to take only the first section of the course or join us for both sections with the practicum offered in the Fall of 2020.
pace.oregonstate.edu/foodforests
Andrew Millison’s links:
www.andrewmillison.com/
permaculturedesign.oregonstate.edu/
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All Comments (21)
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So interesting! The future of America needs to have food forests everywhere. Not just for food but to promote physical activity, just giving people something to do to alleviate depression. Nurturing life everyday and watching it grow brings joy. AND I LOVE GOOD FOOD.
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Nice that someone is trying to save the native bees, something that I have been doing for a long time. They are the reasons I turned my yard into a food forest.
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Being a trained social worker with a keen interest in both community development and gardening, this really gets me exited!
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Power to the people. Great project and success. Governments what are you doin to feed the community? So many countries lack food security .
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This is awesome! I love and miss Seattle.
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Just coming across your channel. Have enjoyed everything I've watched so far. Great production, awesome storytelling. Earth Stewardship, well documented and promoted
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This was so interesting. It’s only a half hour from me so I need to see it for myself!
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Brilliant! Such a great project - you’re an impressive group!
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You make the world a better place. This is community. You are our Leaders! I love you all.
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thank you for your continued work in urban agriculture and community activism
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thank you...inspiring.....valuable to know more in depth how this came about :)
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Very curious if the City, Police, social services & health dept in the local area have saved money as a result of the project - i.e. positive knock-on effects. Also wonder if the project included the homeless in the actual work itself & no just giving them free food - skills training with a path into employment opportunities elsewhere etc. Does the project work with domestic violence charities etc as a means of channeling negative behaviour patterns into positive attitudes through permaculture/gardening education? Potentially I can see money being saved by less maintenance for municipalities, less fly tipping, lower policing needs, improved health outcomes, improved educational outcomes thru better nutrition, potentially lower suicide rates & so on depending on how such projects are framed.
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thanks for the constant inspiration and education
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Fascinating project in Collective Action. It should have been no wonder, however, that in a state where there is no income tax and the only measure of social class hierarchy is Land Ownership, that the "powers that be" are worried about Homeless People (or, translation for common folk, those who are without land). Interesting.
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4:00mins in is such an important breakdown of the bureaucratic process very well said and done!
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I've been watching you grow! I have such administration for you all . . . For the pioneering work that you do .. for your dedication & ultimate success . . ♡♡♡♡♡
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Wow amazing!!!
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Beautiful, beautiful, and beautiful!
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Love it! So awesome!
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Good!