Ditch Your Grocery Store. Go Foraging Instead 08.15.2022
Initiatives like Forested show that we may be able to do even better. We can actually enhance nature by engaging — asking what it needs from us and what we need from it.
How to Farm a Forest—and Feed a Neighborhood 10.31.2016
A forest garden helps prove the theory that fertile, well-maintained understories can produce as many calories per acre as a field of wheat.
Maryland Public Television - Al Spoler discovers the Bounty of the Forest 01.22.2019
The team at Forested—a 10-acre food forest in Bowie—is intent on proving that there’s more than one way to feed the world.
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The Bowie Sun - Bowie native is bringing nature back to the table 12.07.2024
Smith became increasingly “interested in the more intimate connection between people and the forest through food.”
A Food Forested Revolution 10.01.2017
Lincoln Smith’s strategy is to work with nature, rather than against it.
Bowie farmer Lincoln Smith part of Growth Industry 06.22.2019
...trees and plants also protect that environment, preventing runoff, keeping the surrounding water clean and shading soil from the sun.
Forest Garden Bearing Fruit as Both Food Producer, Water Filter 04.15.2015
“We’re trying to push the envelope with as much ecosystem function and food production on the same piece of ground as we can”
For D.C. Students, Lessons in Growth, of the Garden Variety 11.15.2019
Forest gardens at schools can also help urban children and adults regain once-common knowledge about food and nutrition.
Emerson Street Food Forest Ribbon Cutting 05.14.2016
DPW Supervisor Dawn Taft, Councilman Kevin Ward, Mayor Candace Hollingsworth & DPW Director Lesley Riddle cut the ribbon opening the Emerson Street Food Forest.
The Man Who Hopes to Turn Acorns into Gold 02.22.2016
Lincoln Smith is experimenting with growing and baking with the overlooked and humble acorn
Transform an Invasive Bradford Pear Tree into a Fruiting Pear 04.19.2014
Using a simple bark grafting technique, it's possible to make these weedy trees into producers of delicious European or Asian pear fruit.