Located just 2.5 miles outside of downtown Seattle, the ethnically diverse Beacon Hill neighborhood will be home to the nation’s largest (7 acres!) urban food forest.
What exactly is a food forest? It’s just like a regular forest with trees and shrubs but just about everything in a food forest is edible. Eat your heart out, Willy Wonka.
Beacon Food Forest will house fruit and nut trees, berry shrubs and edible perennials. The forest will also include certain plants that attract insects for natural pest management. Continue reading