Learn how to build a functional forest from the ground up, practically anywhere. The work of restoring local plant communities is necessarily humbling. Especially when trees are involved, it exceeds our lifetimes. But the delayed gratification of restoration need not always be the case.

For the past several years, the Horn Farm Center has explored one intervention for achieving restoration leaps at a human scale, and quickly. Rapid reforestration may help communities meet the urgency of today's ecological crises, and this time-tested method offers a promising pathway for doing so, even in the most unexpected places.

In this session, we’ll discuss the Miyawaki Method for planting rapid-growth mini forests from the ground up. We'll branch into its history and ecological underpinnings, basic premises of the process, and current examples of mini forest systems at the Horn Farm Center. While mini forests were initially designed for urban and industrial contexts, we'll shed light on agricultural and residential spaces as worthy contenders for rapid rewilding.

**Online pre-registration is required to attend.  Visit this link to register https://hornfarmcenter.org/civimessages/event/info/?reset=1&id=1284

This topic is also offered as an in-person experience at the Horn Farm. Join us on DATE TBD for Meet a Mini Forest: The Miyawaki Method.