Tuesday, February 28, 2012

"Reverse" farming + the first American public food forest

-Over the years urban has almost become synonymous with concrete, tar and glass. Stormwater, often consider by some to be a necessary evil of built environment, is being treated in some ingenious ways across North America. On a smaller scale as functional art and now, on a larger scale in Los Angeles, incorporated into a park and wetland.

-In major urban centers city officials are finding other ways to use public lands to get people involved in enjoying their community. Seattle is the first to open an edible landscape and community park. Yes, a seven acre permaculture food forest open to all and space for community workshops as well.
And why not, if you can, let someone pick a tomato while waiting for the bus.

So you're done foraging for the day and your refrigerator is already full. Which things absolutely have to go in the fridge and which don't? Although refrigeration technology goes back almost 900 years, humans have been storing things without it for much longer than that. There's a ton to know, and contribute to, the unrefrigeration movement.

-I just made that up, "unrefrigeration", as I did "reverse farming". But, I am not really sure what to call it when you're from the fungal kingdom (traditionally known as a "lower life form") and using species from more highly evolved kingdoms, plants and animals, to bring you to food and even raise food for you.

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