The Burrardview Food Forest Management Guide, a manual for collective landscape stewardship

Urban food forest gardens integrate edible, medicinal, and cultural plant species into multistoried ecosystems, and they have specific requirements for high production yields. In contrast to landscapes that are maintained by maintenance companies (such as described in the Canadian Landscape Standard), urban food forest gardens are designed, installed and managed by volunteers with various skill levels. This project will document and communicate techniques from unique perspectives in collective land management, food forest science, herbalism, permaculture and Indigenous ways of knowing. The project will create a food forest management guide in the City of Vancouver on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Land.