In the spring of 2020 SilvoCulture designed a food forest for the Frederick Islamic Society Community Center. The food forest is an excellent complement to the Center’s vegetable garden, rainwater capture grow beds, and pollinator garden that were installed through a partnership with Hood College Food Security Network. The design incorporates nuts and fruits in many niches throughout the property and revitalizes existing oak tree plantings. Nuts incorporated into the design include chestnuts, black walnuts, and oaks, and fruits include pawpaws, mulberry, serviceberry, nanking cherry, currant, aronia, and elderberry. As these shrubs and trees start to produce, their fruits and nuts can be integrated into the community-building activities the Center has already started through connection to environment and food.

Food Forest at Frederick Islamic Society Community Center