Hacker NewsMake Your Own Microforest
https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket
#HackerNews #Make #Your #Own #Microforest #forest #gardening #urban #greenery #sustainable #living #eco-friendly
DoomsdaysCW‘#Microforest’ takes root amid city streets of #ProvidenceRI, reflecting worldwide trend
“As more and more people see it, they’ll be inspired,” said Jeff Matteis of the Pearl Street Garden Collective. “It’s just like one little point, but it just radiates benefits out.”
By Edward Fitzpatrick, September 27, 2025
PROVIDENCE — "The asphalt grid of South Providence is lined with multifamily homes and concrete sidewalks. But along Pearl Street, one lot stands out.
"It’s lush and green, with nearly 270 trees packed into a 1,000-square-foot lot. Officially called the Pearl Street Garden, it contains a tiny forest in the middle of the urban jungle.
" 'Microforests' like this one are cropping up in places ranging from #ElizabethNJ to #CambridgeMA, to #Pakistan. South Providence has two, both along Pearl Street, created by #GroundworkRhodeIsland and the #PearlStreetGardenCollective. The goal is to combat climate change and bring cooling shade to urban areas that lack the leafy boulevards of wealthier neighborhoods.
" 'This isn’t habitat restoration on the scale that is needed in terms of the world,' said Jacq Hall, director of special projects at Groundwork Rhode Island, an environmental group that works to create healthier, more resilient urban communities in Rhode Island. 'But it is a really great way, especially in a city, for people to become very in close touch with biodiversity and why it’s important and why it’s also beautiful.'
"In May, more than 100 people came out to plant the microforest.
" 'There’s microforest momentum happening around the world right now,' said Jeff Matteis, cofounder of the Pearl Street Garden Collective, a group of artists, gardeners, and educators championing #ecological land #stewardship. 'I think as more and more people see it, they’ll be inspired.' "
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Lee 🌏#ParticipatoryUrbanism in action.
Local residents in #Monash #Melbourne helping to plant their first #microforest
#GardeningAustralia #climatecrisis #SolarPunk
Local residents in #Monash #Melbourne helping to plant their first #microforest
#GardeningAustralia #climatecrisis #SolarPunk
PaulaToThePeople 😷Too many ideas for things to do...
None of them would make any money.
Which of these ideas should I keep pursuing?
1) A new #ClimateJustice activism group, that doesn't spend money on social media ads. So it will have a hard time growing big.
2) A webportal for onboarding people to different activism groups. You answer a questionnaire and then you get (a) suggestion(s).
3) A non-profit that plants #trees and #MicroForest's.
4) None of them. So I have more time to work on the #FediverseFoundation.
multiple choice #poll
1) new activism group
2) onboarding webportal
3) trees & microforests
4) none of that
Poll ended at .
Prabhat MisraFrom barren & dry to lush #green: #Firozabad dist admin, locals develop #microforest along #LucknowAgraExpressway
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/from-barren-land-to-micro-forest-firozabad-s-first-line-of-defence-against-pollution-on-lucknow-agra-expressway-thrives-101685901333041.html #WorldEnvironmentDay #WED2023 #BeatPlasticPollution
From barren & dry to lush #green: #Firozabad dist admin, locals develop #microforest along #LucknowAgraExpressway
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/from-barren-land-to-micro-forest-firozabad-s-first-line-of-defence-against-pollution-on-lucknow-agra-expressway-thrives-101685901333041.html #WorldEnvironmentDay #WED2023 #BeatPlasticPollution
Julien MoreauSince mid-December we have been planting #trees from our island on our #croft. This is the 900th tree of different native origins to the Isle of Lewis (Alder, 2 willows, oaks, hazels, hawthorn, blackthorn, rowan and aspen). They were distributed according to the quality of the soil and their liking of other species. We also made a stream to drain the excess water and a couple of ponds. All that to create a 0.3 ha #microforest following the advice and support from the Woodland Trust.
I missed the #tram, so I got the next one 3 minutes later.
On the tram I listened to the news. Today is the 10th anniversery of us abolishing lobbies and reforming our #democracy into #anarchism. There are no more elections, instead everybody gets to vote on any decision that is relevant to them.
I arrive at work 3 minutes late. Nobody cares. Today we plant a #MicroForest on the rooftop of the highest building of the city. I'm a biologist and it was my job to decide which species are planted here. I had to make sure they were local, resilient to our current and future #climate as well as to strong winds that are typical on this high building.
Today I help the others plant the tiny trees.
At noon we all eat at the #CommunalKitchen of the building we worked at. The vegetables come from the #Vertical Garden on the building's walls.
Afterwards I go home to enjoy the rest of the day with my family, friends & neighbors. It's wednesday and my workweek is done.