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It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Thanks to Casey and Andrea, It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants,
and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.
By Clare Leschin-Hoar February 21, 2012
http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/02/21/its-not-fairytale-seattle-build-nations-first-food-forest
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre
plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted
with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut
trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples
and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons,
honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be
available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s
first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a
public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the
Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on
construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this
summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban
agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which
means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in
the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale
permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its
kind in the nation.
“The concept means we consider the soils, companion plants, insects,
bugs—everything will be mutually beneficial to each other,” says
Harrison.
That the plan came together at all is remarkable on its own. What
started as a group project for a permaculture design course ended up
as a textbook example of community outreach gone right.
“Friends of the Food Forest undertook heroic outreach efforts to
secure neighborhood support. The team mailed over 6,000 postcards in
five different languages, tabled at events and fairs, and posted
fliers,” writes Robert Mellinger for Crosscut.
Neighborhood input was so valued by the organizers, they even used
translators to help Chinese residents have a voice in the planning.
So just who gets to harvest all that low-hanging fruit when the time comes?
“Anyone and everyone,” says Harrison. “There was major discussion
about it. People worried, ‘What if someone comes and takes all the
blueberries?’ That could very well happen, but maybe someone needed
those blueberries. We look at it this way—if we have none at the end
of blueberry season, then it means we’re successful.”
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