Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with
edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.
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.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before
in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon
Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and
permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer. (Read further: Source)
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