Learn how your community can incorporate edible native plants into an existing greenspace for the purpose of maintaining a healthy environment, providing food to local residents and food and habitat to local wildlife.

Food Forests can benefit the community by creating a public space wherein edible food is grown in an existing environment, thus maintaining a greenspace while also providing a new purpose.

Food forests can provide benefits such as:  

• providing a local, visible source of food for residents and wildlife
• promoting food security in areas which may be food deserts
• increasing biodiversity and wildlife habitat
• contributing to the management of stormwater runoff and urban heat island effect
• bringing the community together by encouraging volunteers to participate in its maintenance
• Improving human health