Name: Planting companion layers in a food forest
Start: 2024-05-25T09:30:00-03:00
End: 2024-05-25T12:00:00-03:00
Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Planting companion layers in a food forest

Help us build the first school-based food forest in Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki! It will be a place for our students and community to gather, eat, learn and play.

Ne'ata'q Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn how to plant shrub, perennial and low layers in a food forest in this FREE hands-on Learn & Work Party.

Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn, Play, Eat & Connect 2024

Our community is creating a food forest at Bluenose Academy in E'se'katik/Lunenburg, Nova Scotia!  Join our inclusive seasonal Learn & Work Parties: hands-on learning while you help raise the food forest. Find out more at www.foodforestatbluenose.com

Planting companion layers in a food forestEvent Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose AcademyStorm date: Sun May 26Food forests have been used to grow food by many indigenous cultures around the world for hundreds of years or more, and are still used today. A food forest is designed to resemble a forest ecosystem in which different types of perennials (trees, shrubs, herbs, and flowers) are planted together to perform different functions such as help fertilize the soil, attract pollinators, offer shade, repel pests, etc. In a food forest, most of the plants are perennial and many are native to the region. Explore our young food forest at Bluenose Academy, and help us add more plants in 2024! We will guide you to plant a few more trees and lots of shrubs and perennials in diverse layers and guilds, rather than rows. This is a hands-on Learn &amp; Work Party, in which you will learn-by-doing, working with fellow community members to raise our young little food forest! Activities will include digging, shovelling, wheelbarrowing, spreading and moving organic material. Activities are suited to strong healthy adults, teens and older children; younger children can also participate in planting smaller plants.Physical challenge level: mediumFamily friendly: Yes. One or more volunteers will be on-site to lead primary-elementary aged children in outdoor active play. Please send us a note at least one week prior to the event with age(s) of child(ren) so our volunteers can prepare. Thanks!Be prepared: This is a hands-on outdoor workshop.Dress for work and the weather: layers, protective work/hiking boots, work clothes and gloves.Bring: drinking water/beverage; a snack will be provided.If you have it: a shovel, a compost/multi-tined pitchfork. We also need a few more wheelbarrows - please let us know if you have one!

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