Young Nature Preserve: Myersville Food Forest

SilvoCulture is very excited to be partnering with the Town of Myersville to install a food forest on the land across the street from Doub’s Meadow Park. Staff began design, land preparation, and planting in late winter 2022. The design includes three passive water-harvesting swales on contour to capture and slowly sink water into the ground during heavy rains. Hybrid chestnuts will be the powerhouse nut producer, interplanted with black locust trees to serve as nitrogen fixers and a valuable wood harvest as surrounding chestnuts grow to mature size. The planting also includes hazelnuts, pawpaws, American persimmons, American plums, jujubes, cornelian cherry dogwoods, select mulberries, goumis, black currants, and a willow temple at the crest of the hill.

A big thank you to the Town of Myersville for pioneering this unique agreement with SilvoCulture. We can’t wait to see how the planting interconnects with the rest of the park, to see people taking walks through and enjoying, and in a few years down the road, to start to see fruits and nuts coming in for harvest.