We want to encourage many schools to create their own food forests with this practical guide, so we can spread and promote healthy eating habits and bring children closer to nature

WHY FOOD FORESTS?

A food forest is a diverse plantation of mainly edible plants, organized in such a way that it tries to imitate the ecosystems and patterns of nature, allowing us to work with it to generate productive and resilient spaces.

Benefits of having a school food forest

IMPROVES

education and nutrition

TransformS

unproductive spaces into green areas

PromoteS

good environmental practices

Encourages

teamwork and sense of community

FIGHTS

sedentary lifestyle

WORKS AS A

source of sensory stimulation

An initiative of Nature’s Pride Foundation, NGO Horizonte, and with the support of a dedicated community, we are more than ever committed to improving nutrition in children. More school food forests, better nutrition!

SCHOOL FOOD FORESTS CONTRIBUTIONS

Check out this list of questions to learn more about our project

  • Living laboratory for teaching different subjects.

  • Creative space for teacher.

  • Practice-based learning

  • Sustainable water management

  • Natural fertilizers preparation

  • Solid waste segregation

  • Recycling

  • Composting

  • Biodiversity increase

  • Ecosystems strengthening

DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION?

If you are interested in financing a food forest you can contact us through this form.

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With this handbook, we want to encourage many schools and communities to create their own cultivation spaces, to spread and promote healthy eating habits and bring children closer to nature.

It is a practical guide that shows a step–by–step process to create a vegetable garden and introduces the concept of a food forest. A concept that emphasizes the importance of crop diversification of edible plants, that are organized in such a way that it tries to imitate the ecosystems and patterns of nature.

At the same time, it brings importance to biodiversity, crop rotation, and above all, soil health.

This handbook teaches you how to design the orchard, prepare the soil and organic fertilizers, and how to sow. It also includes chapters on pruning, irrigation, prevention of pests and diseases, and different types of plant reproduction.

If you want to read more download the manual, unfortunately now you can only find it in spanish.