(Photo) Designers of a food forest in Seattle want to make blueberry picking a neighborly activity. (iStockphoto.com) ____________________ GENERAL INTEREST: Seattle’s First Urban Food Forest Will Be Free To Forage Washington state has jumped on the foraging bandwagon with plans to develop a 7-acre public plot into a food forest. The kicker? The lot sits smack in the middle of Seattle. The idea is to give members of the working-class neighborhood of Beacon Hill the chance to pick plants scattered throughout the park – dubbed the Beacon Food Forest. It will feature fruit-bearing perennials — apples, pears, plums, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and more. —-
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(Photo) Designers of a food forest in Seattle want to make blueberry picking a neighborly activity. (iStockphoto.com)

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GENERAL INTEREST:

Seattle’s First Urban Food Forest Will Be Free To Forage

Washington state has jumped on the foraging bandwagon with plans to develop a 7-acre public plot into a food forest. The kicker? The lot sits smack in the middle of Seattle.

The idea is to give members of the working-class neighborhood of Beacon Hill the chance to pick plants scattered throughout the park – dubbed the Beacon Food Forest. It will feature fruit-bearing perennials — apples, pears, plums, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and more.

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