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LOTUS GARDEN
Small-scale food forest
A front-yard food forest that proves permaculture can start at the scale of a lawn, a gutter, and a conversation with a neighbor.
Lotus Garden / summer canopy / 2015NODE BRIEF
With a food forest started in 2015, Lotus Garden is an example of what is possible with permaculture even on a small scale. The front yard is now a food garden that enables local conversations about local food systems.
Three swales and a redirected gutter system harvest water on site. The canopy is stacked with peach, pear, cherry, hazelnut, fig, persimmon, blueberry, and nitrogen-fixing companions.
It is a demonstration site, a seed bank in progress, and a place to test what a residential lot can actually carry.
