The Food Forest at St. Michael’s will be a self-sustaining, low-maintenance, water efficient, and highly bio-diverse garden. it will be specifically designed to replicate a natural Kansas biome by growing varied layers of edible and otherwise useful plants together in one symbiotic ecosystem.

As Peter Vogel, the founder of GrowPerma writes:

You want a garden that will “produce food year after year without starting from scratch every spring. That's exactly what a food forest does. Instead of planting in rows like a traditional garden, a food forest stacks edible plants vertically in seven distinct layers, mimicking the way a natural woodland grows. The result? More food from less space, less work once established, and a garden that actually gets better with time.”

That is our goal. To create a community garden that is not reliant on massive amounts of, replanting, and tending to produce great food for years, for generations to come.

Cutting down the trees may seem awful to some. But what we will use those trees, and this space for will be great benefit to our neighborhood and our community.