The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Fueled by the popularity of permaculture and agroecology, community food forests are capturing the imaginations of people in neighbourhoods, towns, and cities across the United States. Along with community gardens and farmers markets, community food forests are an avenue toward creating access to nutritious food and promoting environmental sustainability where we live. People are the most vital component of community food forests, but while we know more than ever about how to design food forests, the ways in which to best organise and lead groups of people involved with these projects has received relatively little attention. In this handbook, Catherine Bukowski and John Munsell dive into the civic aspects of community food forests, drawing on observations, group meetings, and interviews at over 20 projects across the country and their own experience creating and managing a food forest.