Community Calendar
Looking for fun activities for your kids? Or how about a new wildlife documentary film screening? Or maybe, a workshop on gardening or bike repair?
Our calendar features upcoming community events for those who enjoy a mix of outdoors, activism, creativity, and learning. Make the My Green Montgomery calendar your first stop to planning your week.
Is our calendar missing an event? Tell us about it!
- This event has passed.
Create a Food Forest
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Create a Food Forest
Wednesday, April 14, 2:00pm
Speaker: Lincoln Smith, Founder, Forested
Learn how your community can incorporate edible native plants into an existing greenspace for the purpose of maintaining a healthy environment, providing food to local residents and food and habitat to local wildlife.
Food Forests can benefit the community by creating a public space wherein edible food is grown in an existing environment, thus maintaining a greenspace while also providing a new purpose.
Food forests can provide benefits such as:
- providing a local, visible source of food for residents and wildlife
- promoting food security in areas which may be food deserts
- increasing biodiversity and wildlife habitat
- contributing to the management of stormwater runoff and urban heat island effect
- bringing the community together by encouraging volunteers to participate in its maintenance
- Improving human health
