The food forest, as the designer turned
urban farmer describes it, was started on a parkway next to his home, and took up the 10 - foot - wide, 150 - foot - long strip once dominated by unruly grass.
It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect
farmers in Vermont with
urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some
describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.