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Community orchards are providing food for residents and shelters across the city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
on Aug. 25,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway station),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a group of tree nerds will be your guides through the hidden urban menu of Forest Hill. The free event (with a suggested $5 donation) showcases the food you may not have noticed growing from our trees.
focus on what humans can consume and enjoy and start to fall in love with our urban forests again in a whole new way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], says Amanda Gomm (manager of LEAF),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one of the guides.
A few weeks ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], on a sticky afternoon, Gomm and co-guides Susan Poizner, founder of the park community orchard, and Laura Reinsborough,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], founder of Not Far From The Tree, gave me a pre-tour, starting in the park near the still-young trees they planted.
Three years ago Ben Nobleman Park was in disuse. were never any people here, says Poizner. playground was old and rotting. started to envision a situation where folks in our community could get together, plant some trees,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], take care of them and share the harvest. ?At a public meeting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however, there was the usual community opposition.?
were afraid of mess, fallen fruit attracting bees that would bite their children, homeless people coming here to eat the fruit.
Now though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the few members who were opposed to the idea have become active participants in the orchard.
From the park, we wind our way north, along Everden Road,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the ladies pointing out service berries, black locust, magnolia, mulberries that have already begun to stain the sidewalk a fading purple linden berries, ginko leaves and crabapples. It was staggering,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all the little things, edible, palatable or medicinal growing around us.
One residential yard was bursting with peaches.
Reinsborough organization,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Not Far From The Tree, collects excess fruit from homes like this.
pick food and share it, Reinsborough says. have trees in their yards and when they can harvest it, they call us. A third of the harvest is offered to the homeowner. A third is offered to the volunteers so everyone gets to go home with a bucket of cherries or a bag full of pears. The final third we donate to food banks and shelters. We partner with 30 different agencies across the city. The year prior (with better weather) it was almost 20,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 pounds.
The tour will visit at least one of these ready-to-eat fruit caches. But along the way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the group (the event usually draws over 100 people) will learn about all the little things hanging from trees.
is this whole other idea of what edible that better understood through a conservation and urban forestry lens, says Reinsborough. tend to think of what most palatable, what easiest to work with and cultivate. But there so much more plant matter out there that is edible than we think. Clair, Poizner leads me to a patch of staghorn sumac, from which I make a cocktail for the next night dinner (see this week Fed column with arborist Todd Irvine).
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