Introduction
Section 1: The Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Community Food Forests in the United States
Chapter 2: The Role of Agroecology
Chapter 3: Systems Thinking and Community Assets
Chapter 4: Community Capitals and Food Forests
Section 2: Getting Started
Chapter 5: Dr. George Washington Carver Edible Park
Chapter 6: Understanding Public Space
Chapter 7: Building Social Systems
Chapter 8: Critical Community Reflection
Section 3: Planning is a Process
Chapter 9: Basalt Food Park
Chapter 10: Planning Fundamentals
Chapter 11: Planning for Change
Chapter 12: Deep Rooting
Section 4: Impact Through Action
Chapter 13: Beacon Food Forest
Chapter 14: Useful Design
Chapter 15: Bloomington Community Orchard
Chapter 16: Collaborative Leadership
Conclusion
Chapter 17- Looking Back, Going Forward
Catherine Bukowski is a PhD candidate in the College of Natural
Resources and the Environment at Virginia Tech, where she co-taught
an agroforestry and whole-farm-planning course that incorporated
permaculture principles. She has also earned a graduate certificate
in Collaborative Community Leadership from the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences. Catherine previously co-coordinated
a forest farming virtual community for the online Cooperative
Extension network. She is on the Board of Directors for the
Association of Temperate Agroforestry. She also served as a Peace
Corps volunteer in Honduras, where she worked with farmers and as a
change agent for the Lancetilla Botanical Garden and Research
Center.
John Munsell is an associate professor and forest management
extension specialist at Virginia Tech. His background is in
sociology and natural resource management. He also is associate
editor of the journal Agroforestry Systems and has served as a
reviewer for New York City Museum of Natural History, Routledge,
Taylor & Francis Group, and the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada. John teaches agroforestry and
permaculture at Virginia Tech. He has worked with communities from
Appalachia to Cameroon to study agroforestry implementation and
associated environmental, social, and economic impacts. He has
helped design whole-farm plans incorporating permaculture and
agroforestry for properties across the United States.
“The increased interest in botanical sanctuaries, forest gardens,
and nurtured edible gathering places is a sign that many are
seeking to rekindle our relationship with these spaces as
caretakers in these modern times. Learning how to nurture food
forests builds community resilience, engagement, health, and
stewardship. The Community Food Forest Handbook is perfect for
townships, urban planners, landscape designers, community
organizers, land trusts, permaculture enthusiasts, and foragers who
aspire to dig in and seed our future. Catherine Bukowski and John
Munsell have created a timely, well-researched guide that provides
plenty of hands-on tools for advocacy and implementation based on
diverse case studies from across the country. In the spirit of
Robert Hart’s classic Forest Gardening, it gives hope to see the
community food forest trend rapidly resurging.”—Susan Leopold,
executive director of United Plant Savers
“The Community Food Forest Handbook opens the door to a new,
rapidly expanding approach to agroforestry in urban areas and
communities. Rather than focus on the technical aspects of planting
and production, Catherine Bukowski and John Munsell address
sociological challenges inherent in planning and sustaining
community food forests, as well as potential solutions. The result
is a comprehensive resource for adapting practices traditionally
applied to privately owned rural land for the enrichment of
community-managed greenspaces.”—Susan Stein, director of National
Agroforestry Center of USDA Forest Service
“Wedding community renewal with agroecology, Bukowski and Munsell
offer us a remarkably rich harvest of wisdom from a quarter of a
century of insight and struggle in the community food forest
movement. First fruits are everywhere consumed to nourish the
spirit, reward unlikely heroes, and propitiate success. Partake of
The Community Food Forest Handbook, and celebrate permaculture
taking hold of America’s imagination: from Seattle to Asheville,
Syracuse to San Francisco, and in dozens of cities across the
fruited plain, perennial culture is rising.”—Peter Bane, president
of Permaculture Institute of North America
“As communities seek both to grow food and to solve social and
environmental problems, they need new insights into the ways in
which people self-organize to initiate projects and sustain them in
the long term. In The Community Food Forest Handbook, the authors
offer a highly useful guide based on the collective wisdom of
people and communities who are defining this practice as they
develop it on the ground. The thoughtful analysis of planning
strategies and numerous case studies of active projects help us all
understand what community food forests are and can be for the
future.”—Steve Gabriel, author of Silvopasture and coauthor of
Farming the Woods
“It’s great to see a book about food forests / forest gardens which
concentrates on community-scale projects. These need design and
management not only for the growing system itself, but also for the
human community that nurtures the forest and is often much
neglected. The Community Food Forest Handbook does an
excellent job of tackling the social issues and includes some
highly informative case studies of community projects.”—Martin
Crawford, director of Agroforestry Research Trust; author of Trees
for Gardens, Orchards, and Permaculture
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