Events

📍 374 Farnum Pike, Smithfield RI
📅 Sunday, August 24th
⏰ 4PM - 6PM
🚻 About 30 feet from venue
🅿️ Onsite parking about 15 feet from the pavilion
☔ Rain Date TBD
💸 Pay What You Can

Imagine a space where you can meander through, pick oregano, hazelnuts, asparagus & peaches. Where birds have their fill of haskaps, goumis, and boysenberries and ample nesting space for their young. Where soil is built by composting biomass that is chopped & dropped - teeming with fungal life, insects & microbes. Food and medicine for people, food and habitat for wildlife, and so much more!
Join us for a workshop at Revive the Roots Forest Garden to learn the basics of food forests, how they differ from other food production practices, and considerations for starting a food forest project on different scales.
Forest Gardens or Edible Food Forests are commonly seen in permaculture landscapes as abundant production spaces with multiple layers with overlapping complex functions.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the workshop, workshop participants should be able to:

Define a forest garden and differentiate it from similar practices (e.g. fruit orchards, forest farming, etc.)
Understand different planting structures (companion plantings, polyculture, guild, etc.)
Identify the layers of the forest garden and be able to define their characteristics and purpose and how they interact with one another
Understand the importance of interactions within each layer
Understand the history and evolution of RtR’s forest garden and the broader concept of succession and how they might want to plan for succession as part of their planning process
Further explore educational resources and feel inspired to implement their own forest garden
Further explore educational resources and feel inspired to implement their own forest garden

Rootstock 2025 page is live! Check it out now to see how you can be part of the festivities. We are looking for teachers, artist, performers, nature enthusiasts, sponsors and helping hands.

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Please contact us with requests for accommodations or questions about accessibility of the space and/or programs. This could include inquiries about wheelchair accessibility and available adaptations for people with visual or hearing impairment. Email our staff with the subject "accessibility" or call 401-305-0539.

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