I am always fascinated about the idea of ‘rewilding’. It is intriguing to think what difference it would make to turn fields of grass that fill many of the city parks in Melbourne with thick forests of native trees? Although I am not sure I want apex preditors with such rewilding. This all has me thinking a bit differently about just planting trees to hold back a desert.
📑 Planting trees isn’t enough. Here’s why we need tiny man-made forests
A mini-forest is a small ecologically robust forest that can be planted by communities in parks and cities, in schoolyards and churchyards, and beside busy roads. It’s flipped traditional landscaping on its head. You get more biodiversity and a different appearance. It’s a dense band of multi-layer trees as opposed to the elegant but less ecologically useful line of single species down the side of the street.
Tara Yarlagadda interviews Hannah Lewis about her book Mini-Forest Revolution which explores the use of the Miyawaki method to rewild the world.
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