Thursday, October 27, 2016

Bay Haven Food Forest has 30 visitors on day #1 of EAT LOCAL Sarasota

Saturday morning was a good time to gather some history about the Food Forest and meet some of the people instrumental in getting the edible garden started back in September 2014. At the event were Jayne Cobb from the Slow Food Board's Edible School Garden Committee and Roger Landree, one of Bay Haven's prime movers in getting the garden growing. One of big challenges they faced was designing an edible landscaped garden in area which does not get sun for six month out of the year. But the garden may not stop here. They hope to expand the garden into the courtyard area, if everyone agrees.
Harnessing basic permaculture principles, the food forest is and agricultural ecosystem intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient or as Roger Landree put it, permaculture is  "levering natural synergy to create abundance."

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