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September 20, 2016

Mount Vernon ‘food forest' will serve local food banks

  • A Skagit Valley nonprofit wants to teach people about permaculture, which can produce a lot of food without tilling, seeding, watering or weeding.
    • By KIMBERLY CAUVEL
    Skagit Valley Herald

    MOUNT VERNON — While walking through her property in Alger, Sarai Stevens could gather the fixings for a meal or simply snack along the way, plucking leaves, berries and plums from the branches of trees and bushes throughout her food forest.

    Here there are no traditional garden rows, and instead of using artificial fertilizer and watering profusely, plants are strategically placed so that they support one another rather than compete for sun, water and soil nutrients.


     
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