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Permaculture Food Forest in Bigfork; Bigfork Schools Next?

Friday, April 19th, 2013
Vegetated Swale

Vegetated Swale

by Catherine Haug, April 19, 2013

(image, right, from the City of Sandy, Oregon)

This week’s Bigfork Eagle features several articles about Alternative Agriculture. I just published a short post about one of them: Sprouted barley fodder for livestock feed at Flathead Lake Lodge. Another one that caught my eye is Building A Dream: Community Crossroads Memorial Garden by the Eagle’s new editor, David Reese.

I’m excited to read that Polson’s Kelly Ware is moving forward with a permaculture garden in our community, on Crossroads Church property. I hope this leads to similar work on a garden at Bigfork’s schools. (more…)