Take a Pocket Forests tour

About the event

Come on a free tour and learning experience at two different Pocket Forests in Gresham, Oregon!

Learn how small native plant forests can be built simply, and inexpensively on, or near your school’s grounds, as an excellent outdoor classroom. You will also learn a little about how botanists identify native species of trees and plants.

This technique of afforestation has been tested by over 50 years of experimentation worldwide.

One of the forests you will tour is only 6 ft. X 10 ft. Yet it holds several long lived canopy trees, as well as the understory trees, shrubs, and herbaceous layers of a true native climax forest.

The larger forest on this tour is 600 sq. ft., and holds 30 native species, including 160 native plants.

These tiny forests are planted closely together, on the same ‘planting day’. They grow quickly intertwining their roots, creating a kind of wetland of stored rainwater. Thus they are soon unique in how they can clean our atmosphere of larger amounts of carbon. After growing large enough, in 3-4 years these forests require no added watering during the summer months, and little weeding. They are also known to help reduce atmospheric temperatures around them, thus being one of the solutions to climate change that is noted in the text Drawdown, published in 2017, with contributions by over 5,000 scientists.

Check out this video about pocket forests — THE MINI FOREST: Rewilding using the Miyawaki Method.

Contact Anne Nesse, PocketForestsNW, to schedule: SustainableEconomiesNW@gmail.com