Food Forests in Chicago?

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Food Forests in Chicago?
Thursday, April 10th, 7-9 pm
Find out about progress in urban forest gardening and opportunities for creating them here, even with limited space. Includes examples of how appropriate companion plantings can improve productivity.

Learn how ecological garden design is applied with the goal of mimicking some of our major native ecosystems - the forest, woodland and savanna.

Growing paw paws are among the options. They are our largest native fruit, and have other valuable uses.

Some resources and details are listed here.

Presented by Rael Bassan, CUP coordinator.

At North Park Village Nature Center
5801 North Pulaski, Chicago 60646
312.744.5472

More info: raelearth at yahoo.com, 773.756.5033

Neighborhood Orchards

2005 - The beginnings of neighborhood-orchard
http://areachicago.net/p/issues/issue-1/neighborhood-orchard/

2006 - More on orchard as network
http://www.clairepentecost.org/autpart.html

2007 - As part of "clever appropriations of disused urban land for the purpose of growing food."
http://www.realitysandwich.com/garden_pirate