Clifford Park Food Forest
The mission of the Clifford Park Food Forest is to convert the park’s turf into a flourishing food forest that builds ecological resilience and provides food — fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and edible and medicinal plants — for the neighboring community.
Project Goals:
To create an accessible and inclusive space for the community to come together to grow food naturally and regeneratively.
To restore soil health.
To create a food forest with mostly native, fruit bearing shrubs, trees and perennials.
To nurture opportunities to learn good stewardship of our environment.
To create space where people share knowledge and skills.
To provide a space for reinvigorating the human soul!
To nurture wonder, pride, belonging, abundance, relaxation, peace, and FUN!
To create habitat for pollinators, wild fauna, migratory birds, and wildlife.
To strengthen the wildlife corridor along the White River.
To explore how input intensive parks can be transformed into low maintenance and regenerative social and environmental ecosystems.
To work cooperatively with Abenaki community members to learn about traditional ecological knowledge.
Get Involved
Clifford Park is located at 100 Recreation Drive in West Hartford, Vermont.
Please contact Hartford Town Planner Matt Osborn if you would like to be involved.
Photo Credit: Cat Buxton