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THREAD: HOW TO GROW A COMMUNITY FOOD FOREST
We’ll go through the steps of figuring out what to grow, choosing a strategy and a model for transforming your community by creating a lasting food resource and developing and sharing the skill of growing food. 1/19
We’ll go through the steps of figuring out what to grow, choosing a strategy and a model for transforming your community by creating a lasting food resource and developing and sharing the skill of growing food. 1/19
STEP 1: Pick your plants! Look up your growing zone. Start with a few Reliable, Productive, Nutritive, Low-maintenance species. Cost & labor saving traits in plants include ability to direct-seed, ability to propagate by cuttings, and long lifespan. (2/19)
example: “In Houston, zone 9a/9b, we focused on trees that are easy to propagate: fig, banana, moringa, mulberry, pecan, perennials like sweet potato and sunchoke, and red okra as a pest-resistant food-fountain of an annual.” (3/19)
