Introduction to Food Forest Design - A food forest is a way of laying out a landscape to mimic a natural forest, providing food and other human needs with a minimum amount of external inputs and maximum benefits to wildlife and the greater environment. This workshop will introduce the concepts of ecological niches, analogs, and resource partitioning so you can design your own home-scale food forest. To help you implement your design we will also cover best practices for starting a food forest and recommended species to plant.

Speaker: Aaron Parker, Edgewood Nurseries in Falmouth.

Lawns Gone Wild is a yearlong sustainable backyard education series and is offered in collaboration with Prince Memorial Library, the Town of Cumberland's Sustainability and Orchard Committees, and Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust.