Projects
We are now working on several sites in Takoma Park: three at Montgomery College, one in downtown Takoma Park and one at Takoma Park Elementary School.
We are also exploring other sites while working with private landowners to help them grow and maintain food forests on their land, using permaculture design principles and native plants. If you know of a site that might work or you’d like help in your backyard, then please reach out to us via our CONTACT PAGE.
We want all these spaces to become thriving community hubs - places of learning, play, decision-making and joy that provide free, nutrient-dense food in a way that reconnects people with the land, enhances biodiversity, mitigates the climate crisis, and makes our communities more resilient.
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Montgomery College Food Forest
We’ve installed two food forests at the college’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus, engaging the community in a deeper understanding of food production and food sovereignty. Once productive, these edible gardens will become a sustainable source of food for the college's students, many of whom suffer from food insecurity. We’re also transforming the space into a thriving hub for the community with workshops and other regular events.
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Carroll Avenue
This site is a small front yard of a multi-family home located on one of the busiest thoroughfares in Takoma Park. We planted two permaculture guilds on either side of the path, packing in a bunch of edible, medicinal and pollinator plants to show folks what can be done in small urban spaces.
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TPES Garden Club
As part of our efforts to create a food forest at the Takoma Park Elementary School, we installed raised beds and established an after school gardening club. It is being used to teach students at TPES how to grow and harvest food. The club was so popular in its first year that we have expanded it so that more students in each grade can learn how to sow seeds, tend seedlings, maintain the beds and harvest the produce.
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Takoma Park Elementary Food Forest
We are building a mini food forest at Takoma Park Elementary School (TPES). The food forest will be incorporated into the school’s curriculum as students learn what it means to be good stewards of the land.