08/19/2025

Urban Food Forests Offer a Chance to Experience Nature

They also offer the chance to eat it

Dawn Taft reached into a tangle of leafy branches, the top half of her body largely disappearing from view.

"Oh my God, pawpaws!" Taft exclaimed, holding back large canoe-shaped leaves to reveal a cluster of smooth, light-green fruit.

The tree bearing North America’s largest native fruit is one of more than a dozen edible plants flourishing in a roughly 8,600-square-foot plot sandwiched between homes and an auto-repair shop.

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