Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the world celebrates International Day of Forests on March ...

Dawn Taft reached into a tangle of leafy branches, the top half of her body largely disappearing from view. “Oh my God, pawpaws!” Taft exclaimed, holding back large canoe-shaped leaves to reveal a ...

To grow. It's not much yet. This big shrub is elderberry but in Newark, the biggest city in New Jersey, *** small forest is just starting to grow. The food forest is like *** garden, but it's designed ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — As part of Days of Caring, dozens of volunteers across the Lowcountry tended to food forests that provide healthy and accessible food to the community. The Charleston Parks ...

For healthy food and a wealth of other tangible and intangible yields, here are some offbeat places to plant a forest garden. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering ...

What was once a vacant, roughly 14,700-square-foot lot bordered by homes on South Campus is now blossoming into a vibrant food forest, thanks to the vision of mechanical engineering Ph.D. student ...

As a whole, the University of Massachusetts has been working to become as ecologically friendly as possible for over a decade. This is a goal without a well-established finish line. It is the type of ...

There’s a park in Mattapan, and it’s … edible. It’s a quarter-acre “food forest" — a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees, berry bushes and mushrooms. Unlike community gardens, food forests ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Below the red-tile roofs of the Catalina Foothills, an affluent area on the north end of Tucson, Arizona, lies a blanket of desert green: spiky cacti, ...

Below the red-tile roofs of the Catalina Foothills, an affluent area on the north end of Tucson, Arizona, lies a blanket of desert green: spiky cacti, sword-shaped yucca leaves, and the spindly limbs ...

Sooyeon Laura Jin is Forestry Officer (Food Security), Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Plants and animals found in forests play an important role in ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...