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Concurrent Education Session

SUN-C09: Eating Ecologies: Growing Edible Green Infrastructure and Environmental Justice

Sunday, October 6, 2024
2:00pm – 3:15pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 144ABC
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, ISA, NY/HSW, FL

Integrating Indigenous knowledge and agroecology into the design of green infrastructure, including food forests, bikeways, and riparian corridors, creates edible ecologies that expand biodiversity, improve public health, and engage communities. By restoring this fundamental connection between people and place, eating ecologies offer powerful ways to address environmental justice issues.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn approaches for creating and managing community food forests as a new form of productive green infrastructure -- including best practices for community engagement and agroecological system design.
  • Discover how place-based food systems can be a vital means of restoring and protecting Indigenous food and land sovereignty.
  • Explore the diverse types of edible ecological spaces and how they can be integrated with multifunctional green infrastructure systems.
  • Gain an awareness of the environmental justice issues and how they factor into the design process for edible green infrastructure spaces.