Yale Community Forest Garden

05/01/2021

TODAY!! A fun, low-key event at the Forest Garden :)

There are still spots around 2pm. To attend, please reserve a spot at the link below! (Limited to the Yale community due to the school's pandemic guidelines)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PcXalyPBYsiORXq3weCetNCC7DdsESMsyuF0z7v6wGs/edit?usp=sharing

09/24/2019

We have another great mushroom inoculation workshop coming up in October. Hope you can join us! http://yalecarbonfungi.eventbrite.com

Join us for a deep dive into the magic of mushrooms! Join us for Celebrate Sustainability on a deep dive into the magic of mushrooms!

09/06/2019

Welcome back to school everyone! We have lots of great events coming up in the forest garden this semester. And we are excited to be providing tea for a great event coming up this Wednesday! We hope you can join us:

Join the Yale Ethnobotany and Mycology Society in welcoming Dr. Gerry Turpin to campus for a rich discussion on blending traditional science, indigenous knowledge, and ethnobotany.

Dr. Gerry Turpin is the first formally trained Indigenous ethnobotanist in Australia and the winner of the 2013 Deadly award for Science. Gerry manages the Australian Tropical Herbarium at James Cook University Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre.

Wednesday, September 11
Sage Hall Room 24
4:00-5:00pm
Freshly brewed tea from the Yale Community Forest Garden will be served.

This event is free and open to the public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7KKBC1vMM

Traditional science often ignores the wealth of knowledge that Indigenous people get from their land. Much can be gained by learning from Traditional Owners ...

04/15/2019

Did you hear the amazing thunderstorm last night? Our shiitakes did! Thunderstorms are natural stimulants for mushroom growth, and it’s definitely showing in the forest garden today. What a delicious reminder that we live in an interconnected universe!

For more on the connection between thunder and mushrooms, check out https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-lightning-mushrooms-japan-harvest/ (thanks Borden for the tip!)

04/09/2019

Hi everyone! We're celebrating the start of spring with lots of great agroforestry events. These events are all free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

11/04/2018

Thanks for stopping by, friend!

Cooper’s Hawk sighting in the F&ES Forest Garden! 🦅

11/02/2018

We had a great time harvesting and enjoying borden’s Incredible ajiaco soup! Thanks for coming out to !

09/13/2018

Hey all! Hope everyone had a great summer! We're celebrating the equinox in the forest garden with the legendary Ken Mudge! Join us for a FREE immersive mushroom statue making workshop on Saturday, September 22 from 1:00-4:00pm. All are welcome, but spaces are limited, so please register :)

http://mudgeatyale.eventbrite.com

Ken Mudge, co-author of Farming the Woods, is coming to the Yale Community Forest Garden to teach a special immersive workshop on cultivating mushrooms using the fun(gi) and funky totem method. Together, we'll build ten artistic totems, and inoculate them with delicious and nutritious Lion's Mane an...

07/06/2018

04/13/2018

Hey folks! For those interested in herbalism, we are co-hosting a free class on earth day. Spaces are limited, so please only sign up if you are sure you can attend. This is a great course for both novice and intermediate herbalists!

http://yalemateriamedica.eventbrite.com

Join The Yale Ethnobotany and Mycology Society (STIGMA), Health and the Environment at Yale, Yale Environmental Women, and Student Wellness for this immersive herbalism class with Geraldine Lavin! In Creating your Materia Medica, novice and intermediate herbalists will be empowered to bring their he...

04/12/2018

Thanks everyone for coming out for the mushroom workshop! We loved making all that mushroom magic happen with you.

If you want more opportunities to get hands-on in some agroforestry work, check out Opening Day at the Yale-Myers forest this weekend!

https://www.facebook.com/events/128508057994794/

02/15/2018

For those interested in herbal medicine, there is a free introduction to herbalism workshop with Lupo Passero happening this Saturday, February 17 at 1:00 PM! Register at http://yaleherbalintro.eventbrite.com

Join Herbalist Lupo Passero in an immersive Introduction to Herbalism workshop, and learn how to get started on your own path of natural herbal healing. This class will include a hands-on workshop on how to blend medicinal teas and craft medicinal salves, which you'll get to take home afterwards to....

10/27/2017

Holy Shiitake! These babies just sprouted from our multifunctional mushroom path.

The white oak (Q. alba) logs were sourced from the Yale Myers forest and were inoculated during a fun workshop in the Spring co-led by Emma Greenbaum, Liz Felker and Schmemily Figman. We are super excited to see that the logs were able to sprout on the ground, even though they are conventionally stacked. This was a pilot experiment that will now be expanded next spring!

Photo (and mushroom discovery) credit: Dylan Cicero!

08/18/2017

What a difference a year makes! These photos were taken just about a year apart - the first was in August of 2016, the second taken just this week. We are so fortunate to have so much help from our volunteers (the humans and the squash!). Stay tuned for another great year of fun in the forest garden.

07/06/2017

The forest garden got a little shoutout in Yale News. Thanks to James Souder and F&ES communications team for putting together such a cool video of our plant sounds day!

A great collaboration spurred by Sarah Saxomophone, featuring Emma Greenbaum, Raul Romero, Christopher Ross-Ewart Schmemily Figman and Acheampong Atta-Boateng

http://environment.yale.edu/news/article/what-do-plants-sound-like-plants-and-the-audible-spectrum/

What does a plant sound like? And what does a plant hear? An interdisciplinary project at Yale, highlighted during a recent installation at the F&ES Forest Garden, is applying new technologies that help people listen to plants — and even speak their language.

06/25/2017

A huge thank you to the volunteers who came out for TGIForest Garden! We planted 585 medicinal flowers as part of our landscape restoration experiment,and moved more than 5 cubic yards of compost, mulch, and topsoil in just 3 hours. and we had a great time doing it! The garden is grateful and looking beautiful :). Stop by and say hello!

06/23/2017

A big thank you to the Yale Farm and Yale Grounds for supplying and moving compost to the Forest Garden for our multifunctional meadow experiment!

Interconnectedness is the name of the game when it comes to forest gardening: connections between plants and insects and water and microbes and fungi and animals and sun and departments and people and wind and other lovely places are what make the magic happen!

Join us today (Friday 6/23) at 3 PM in the forest garden if you want to be a part of the next steps! There will be beer!

06/18/2017

Lots of goodness in the forest garden. Black currants, elder flowers, strawberries, blueberries asparagus...and so much more!!

04/10/2017

Join us on Earth Day for a special Introduction to Herbalism Class!

We will be blending medicinal teas and crafting medicinal salves with guest herbalist Lupo Passero.

Spaces are limited - please register at herbalism.eventbrite.com

04/02/2017

A fun day learning to inoculate white oak logs (graciously donated by the Yale Myers Forest and transported by Shannon Murray, Yasha Magarik and Jessica Wikle) with Emma Greenbaum, Billy, and Liz Felker! Photos taken by Steven Winter, Eli Terris, and Schmemily Figman

01/27/2017

So excited about this awesome collaboration with the BYO cafe!

01/21/2017

Remember when we planted those bulbs at Community Resilience Day? Look who decided to make an appearance this morning. Seeds sown with intention are masters of magic (and, it seems, impeccable timing).

10/01/2016

Thanks Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies for the wonderful video of our sheet mulching day!

09/29/2016

WOW!! What an amazing day in the Forest Garden! A massive thanks to our incredible volunteers of faculty, staff, students, and community members, to the amazing people at Yale facilities for making the dream happen, and to the outrageously awesome Environmental Stewardship Committee!! Our garden looks fantastic and we can't wait to plant lots of yummy new things.

Photos and more on the way, but in the meantime, enjoy this great moment captured by the inimitable James Souder.

09/29/2016

It's a beautiful day for some sheet mulching! See you at 3, friends!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1101651649871388/

09/27/2016

So excited about these New Haven-foraged paw paws! At least one of us is...

We're stratifying their seeds for some paw paw experimentation in the forest garden next spring. Learn more about our plans and get involved at our volunteer sheet-mulching day on Thursday at 3 PM!