architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Public Design Workshop #1 The Moscow Edible Food Forest Park December 19th, 2018 (https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/691/Moscows-New-Edible-Forest) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 EXISTING CONDITIONS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 SITE PHOTOS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture a b c a b c “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 SITE PHOTOS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture a a b c b c “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 EXISTING CONDITIONS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture SITE AERIAL SOILS WIND ROSE TEMPERATURE & PRECIPIATION “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 EXISTING CONDITIONS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 OPPORTUNITIES & CONSTRAINTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Less Steep Steep Steep FlattestMost Developable “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Park Management Vision “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Moscow’s Edible Food Forest Park Vision Statement • “The Edible Food Forest Park is a long term, dynamic landscape. This unique space is intended to provide educational opportunities and an example to our community of stewardship of a public food forest. This unique space will create a sense of place and community pride for the City of Moscow for generations to come.” (Moscow Edible Food Forest Core Development Team) A Community Garden An Edible Food Forest (within a Public Park – no “Working with Nature” existing Parks or City Typology to date) “Harnessing Nature” • A designated and fenced plot of land inserted in the • An example of Agro-forestry that implements to varying Urban City Fabric to allow for garden patches in the degrees prescribed ecological and permaculture principles concrete jungle and small-scale farming - garden to • Biological/Ecological Mimicry – concerned with the entire table opportunities living web and how to promote a healthy self-sustainable • Individually leased/assigned gardening plots within the system from which all can benefit (including humans) urban growth boundary, tended by select individuals • Polycultures constantly evolving with the potential to who can sow, manage and reap what they fancy require less maintenance • See less diversity and more monocultures • Consciously more earth friendly maintenance practices • Some use of chemical insecticides, fungicides, and • More Biota encouraged and sustained synthetic fertilizers in the “maintenance regime” to • “…the art and science of putting plants together in control invasives, “weeds”, disease and pests woodlandlike patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is more that the sum of its parts” (www.edibleforestgardens.com) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 AGRICULTURE/EDIBLE LANDSCAPES architecture | interior design | landscape architecture (Incredible Edible – Todmorden, England – Pam Warhurst) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 “NATURE PLAY”/TRADITIONAL PLAY architecture | interior design | landscape architecture TRADITIONAL PLAY “NATURE PLAY” “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 BASIC PARK COMPONENTS PATHS, RETAINING WALLS & STORMWATER architecture | interior design | landscape architecture STORMWATER WALLS PATHS “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 PRINCIPLES architecture | interior design | landscape architecture 1. CANOPY – TREES 2. SUBCANOPY – MEDIUM TREES 3. SUBCANOPY – SMALL TREES 4. SHRUBS 5. HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS/ HERBS/VEGETABLES 6. GROUND COVERS/FUNGI 7. VINES “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 PRINCIPLES architecture | interior design | landscape architecture (Credit: www.woodz.co/journal/designing food forest/) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 FOOD FORESTS/OTHER architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Keyhole Garden Beacon Hill Food Forest, Jefferson Park, Seattle, WA Examples of Stratified Gardens Food Forest, Bend, OR Ponds/Aquaculture Hugelkultur (“Hill Culture”) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 PRECEDENTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Festival Beach Forest, Austin, TX (2.43 Acres) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 PRECEDENTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture (5+ Acres) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 PRECEDENTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Serenbe District Food Forest, Atlanta, GA Deanery Project, Nova Scotia, Canada “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 STRATIFIED PLANTING COMPONENTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture TREES VINES SHRUBS PERENNIALS/ HERBS/VEGETABLES GROUNDCOVERS/ BULBS/FUNGI “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 MUTUALLY DEPENDENT WEB COMPONENTS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture HARNESSING NATURE POLINATORS FOOD/ORGANIC Nitrogen Fixers MATTER/NUTRIENTS “Gourmet Decomposters” SOIL BENEFICIAL CONDITIONERS Aerators INSECTS/ORGANISMS “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 FUNCTIONS architecture | interior design | landscape architecture (Credit: https://festivalbeach.org/) “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Program Elements/Amenities • Structures: • Edible Plantings: • Covered Pavilion (20’x20’) Wind breaks, themed garden rooms, privacy • Outdoor Amphitheater (20-30’ dia.) hedges/tapestry hedges, layered edible forest(s), • Gathering Area (15-20’ dia.) polyculture islands/beds, nectary-mixed perennial • Educational Area borders, more native areas (gradient/further away), • Outdoor Classroom area high intensity production pocket(s), experimental • ADA Planters (3-4’ w)/Raised Beds areas, children’s garden plot, pond(s), etc. (4-5’w)/Hillside Terracing • Cisterns • Gateway/Main Entry • Arbors/trellises/living screens • Pathways and Walks – Accessible standards (3-4’w for • Site Furnishings: wheel barrows, 3-5’w for ADA) • Tool Shed (10’x15’) • Potting Area (6-8’l x 2-3’w) • View Points/Overlooks/Contemplative Nooks • Greenhouse (6’x8’, 20’x10’) • Compost Bins(&/or Piles) (6x10’) • Restrooms – conventional or composting toilets (10’x10’) • Picnic Table(s) (6’x6’) • Seating: Park Benches (6-8’l x 3’w)/Seat Walls (1.5- • Accessible Parking Spaces (2) (24’w x 18’l) 2’w) • Drinking Fountain(s) • Lighting • Trash Enclosure(s) • Bike Rack • Signage and Wayfinding • Playground (naturalistic or traditional) (10’x15’, 20’x30’) • Other “Harvest Park”| Edible Food Forest Park City of Moscow Parks and Recreation Department | December 19, 2018 architecture | interior design | landscape architecture Park Type Level I • Themed Garden “Rooms” • Three Planting Layers (the minimum stratification for a food Forest): Groundcovers, Shrubs & Trees • Employ some Ecological Pattern Languages (various prescribed Ecological Garden Shapes i.e. Mini Thickets/Micro Forests, Woodland Gardens, Old Field Mosaic, Old Field Perennial/Annual Vegetable Garden, Temporary Shrublands, Clearings, Gaps, Corridors, Petal Gardens, Scatter/Drift Gardens, etc.) • Mix of monoculture pockets with polyculture islands – ratio tbd • Conventional Irrigation View of Park on hillside from South Main Street looking Northward • Soil testing, primarily organic fertilizers and organic soil supplements Level III Level II • Hugelkultur • Beehives • Keyhole Gardens • Inoculated Tree Stumps • Small Pond(s) • Tiered Ecologies (horizontal as well as vertical)/Diversity within crops • Succession Principles/highly developed Planting • Polycultures – more intense diversification Guilds/Tend toward more native species • Adhere to Ecological Pattern Languages more seriously (various prescribed Ecological • Supplemental Irrigation: Treated Stormwater Reuse Garden Shapes i.e. Mini Thickets/Micro Forests, Woodland Gardens, Old Field Mosaic, • Year-Round Agroforestry Old Field Perennial/Annual Vegetable Garden, Temporary Shrublands, Clearings, Gaps, • Experimental Area(s) Corridors, Petal Gardens, Scatter