Food Forest

Ripe Organic Cultivar Pears

Bringing Urban Orchards to Food Deserts in Ohio

The Common Orchard Project has planted ten orchards in vacant lots in Cincinnati. The organization hopes to plant 100 urban orchards by the end of the decade.

September 22, 2020 - WVXU

Peach Tree

Food Forests Bear Fruit in the Atlanta Region

The Atlanta suburb of Lilburn is the latest city to plant fruit trees for the purpose of feeding the public.

October 3, 2019 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Building Permaculture in Seattle

Robert Mellinger reports on efforts to build the nation's largest public food forest in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Seattle.

February 21, 2012 - Crosscut

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