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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.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
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Wouldn’t this be amazing to experience on a national level? Such an altruistic idea.

I always dream of having a plot of land I live on with good friends and a food forest in it. All with permaculture in mind, completely self-sustaining. One day.
I have watched many documentaries where places in other countries have food forests, or even places in the US, but usually on a more private level. It’s great seeing this on a public scale!
There are a lot of people in Portland trying to do stuff like this too. For instance, the people behind Cully Park that I took photos of not too long ago. It’s amazing how much law creates obstacles for stuff like this to happen. It is so great to see that people are making this a reality!
Gosh, I love permaculture. And I wish it was a more mainstream, if not the mainstream way of life. How wonderful everything would be.

So amazing!!

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Aubrey Plaza Photographed by Danielle Levitt for Bullett Magazine Spring 2012

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Aubrey Plaza Photographed by Danielle Levitt for Bullett Magazine Spring 2012

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Francoise Hardy in Paris, 1963

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Francoise Hardy in Paris, 1963

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