Recent News
We are a 2020 AARP Community Challenge grantee!
We are so excited to share that we are one of 184 awardees chosen for a 2020 AARP Community Challenge grant from @AARPLivable and http://www.facebook.com/AARPMinnesota
Through this grant we will be commissioning three sculptures and purchasing two picnic tables, which will be installed in the Prairie Ally food forest in Luverne, MN. We will be incorporating pieces of old farm equipment and garden tools into the sculptures. This is where we need you! If you have special pieces form old farm equipment or garden tools you would like us to consider incorporating into a sculpture, please contact us at 605-951-0227 or info@projectfoodforest.org by October 1.
For more details on the project, visithttps://projectfoodforest.org/2020/08/21/we-have-been-selected-as-a-2020-aarp-community-challenge-grantee/
Thanks to AARP for the generous support that made this project possible to help make this community a great place for all ages.For more information on all of this year’s grantees and their projects, go to AARP.org/CommunityChallenge.
New interpretive signs!
Thanks to partnerships with University of Minnesota Extension and A Healthier Southwest, the Prairie Ally food forest now has signage throughout the food forest giving you harvest and use tips and health benefits of many of the food producing plant species there. Come for the beauty and the bounty! Open daily, dawn to dusk, at 308 N Blue Mound Ave in Luverne, MN. We will be posting harvest updates on Facebook , Instagram and on site throughout the season.
Edible Landscaping Consultations
In an effort to further inspire those who have been enjoying the Prairie Ally Food Forest in Luverne, MN, we held a drawing for 25 FREE Edible Landscaping Consultations for Rock County, Minnesota residents and businesses this spring thanks to generous support from Blue Cross Blue Shield Center of Minnesota for Prevention. What’s in an edible landscape? Fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, vines, perennials, and self-seeding annuals designed to operate as an ecosystem. Want to know what’s possible on your property? Click here for information on our consultation and design services.
Creating resilient, healthy communities with permaculture.
What is a Food Forest?
Designed to operate as an ecosystem, a food forest focuses on trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, and self-seeding annuals that, once established, will need only a little help from people to be very productive.
Our Mission
We empower people to feed themselves through agroforestry, edible landscaping, and education.
Our goal is to encourage, empower, and equip people to plant and care for edible plants all over. We intend to do this by planting public food forests, designing low-maintenance edible landscapes for clients, and educating through classes.
How you can help
You can help by converting a little or a lot of your own property to sustainable edible landscaping, volunteering at our public food forests, or by making a tax-deductible donation.
