Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
Seattle Parks & Rec gets funding to start an urban food forest: it happens.
Latin@ communities in LA do it themselves:
just sayin. i dont know who’s entirely behind the project in seattle but it’s all too common for white people to start awesome projects like this and get all of the support in the world. when non-white people do it, this is the shit they face. it’s an extreme example for sure, but i highly doubt that if this farm was in a white neighborhood and being worked on by white people, there’s no way what happened to the south central farm would have happened.
