Designers of Seattle food forest want to make blueberry picking a neighborly activity.
If you're a regular reader of The Salt [NPR's food blog], you've probably noticed an interest in foraging. From San Francisco to Maryland, they've met wild food experts, nature guides, and chefs passionate about picking foods growing in their backyards.
Now, Washington state has jumped on the foraging bandwagon with plans to develop a 7-acre public plot into a food forest. The kicker? The lot sits smack in the middle of Seattle.
The idea is to give members of the working-class neighborhood of Beacon Hill the chance to pick plants scattered throughout the park -- dubbed the Beacon Food Forest. It will feature fruit-bearing perennials -- apples, pears, plums, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, and more.
Herlihy and a team first assembled their vision of a food forest in 2009 as a final project for a permaculture design class. More
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