Status: Preliminary survey complete. Grant application submitted.
Project: Creating a self-sustaining mini-forest of native plants and trees on a .14-acre parcel of land in an Environmental Justice neighborhood. The parcel has been pledged for donation for this purpose; we are in the process of transferring ownership. This mini-forest will be planned and created using methods innovated by Japanese ecologist Akira Miyawaki some 40 years ago. The Miyawaki Method is a reforestation process devised to produce fast-growing, self-sustaining mini-forests in urban settings.
This project will be implemented in partnership with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that specializes in the Miyawaki Method and has created several Miyawaki forests in Massachusetts, with several more in progress.
A grant application is pending from the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation for this and the following project.