Starting with the startling idea that the Amazon Rainforest was purposefully planted, Mira Rubin of Sustainability Now treated us to 4 films 2day, about what some people call food forests or, the term I prefer: forest gardens. The first 2 films introduced the subject and described different types of cultivation currently being used (Introduction to Agroforestry with Dr. Sarah Lovell and The Foundations of Syntropic Agroforestry). We learned about the different types of information needed to create a healthy planting. The last 2 films, created 5 years apart, were about Robert and Robyn Guyton’s amazing food forest in Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island (by Happen Films) - a luxuriant lot surrounded by a checkerboard of wide fields. Obviously free-thinking people, Robert blogs about their forest garden! It was a lovely, gentle way to invest 2 hours with new friends (and a couple I knew from the AfterChat), learning and chatting about the films, and offering our own perspectives and life experience. They do this on most Thursday nights. Click the first link above to join, and prepare your popcorn!!
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