Articles: forest
The Miyawaki Method: Imagining a Mini-Forest’s Potential
Want to witness the magic of the mini-forest? When you practice The Miyawaki Method, a unique approach to reforestation, you’ll…
Read MoreHow to Create Your Own Forest Garden
A forest garden provides a beautiful, bountiful edible landscape at any scale—whether only a few dozen square feet or if…
Read MoreDesigning A Food Forest: The Seven-Layer Forest Garden
Get ready to create your own seven-layer forest garden! Food forests, or edible forest gardens, are life-filled places that provide…
Read MoreFarm the Woods: Grow Food and Medicinals in Forests
Contrary to popular belief, forestry and farming are NOT mutually exclusive. Growing food, medicinals, and other non-timber products like mushrooms and…
Read MoreMini-Forest Revolution: An Interview With Hannah Lewis
The Miyawaki Method, a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, is recently seeing a worldwide surge…
Read MoreThe Magic of Mini-Forests
“Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world…There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth…
Read MoreMesquite: Where There’s Smoke
Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between…
Read MoreWild Spicy Forest Paste
In his new book Wildcrafted Fermentation, professional forager Pascal Baudar combines his curiosity, research, and in-depth understanding of terroir to explore new…
Read MorePoplar – The Homemaker
Poplars are some of the fastest-growing trees in the world. They can tolerate the worst conditions and are heavily favored…
Read MoreTrees: The Fountains of Life
Trees. They are all around us. They come in all sorts of different shapes, sizes, and colors. They each have…
Read MoreThe Epic Saga of the American Chestnut
The American chestnut may well be the greatest and most useful forest tree to ever grow on this Earth. Its…
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