When the Guardian visits the Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill there are around a dozen volunteers working on a warm morning. Food forests are part of the broader food justice and urban agriculture movement and are distinct from community gardens in various ways. The Dr George Washington Carver edible park in Asheville, North Carolina, was the first public food forest to open in the US, back in 1997. Elise Evans, a long-time volunteer and former board president of Food Forest Collective, the nonprofit that manages the Beacon Food Forest, shared that the forest has helped in many ways with food insecurity. Anyone can do this in their ecosystem and we’re showing them how that can be done.”The Beacon Food Forest in Seattle is mostly an open harvest site.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2021 08:26 UTC