Pittsburgh Permaculture » Hazelwood Food Forest

Come Join Us at the Food Forest this Saturday!

Michelle — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:23:22 +0000

We will be working at the food forest on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 10am-12pm. The food forest is located at 4700 Irvine St in Hazelwood. It was 4 adjacent vacant lots owned by the URA and now hosts a diversity of edible and otherwise functional tree, bush and groundcover [...]

Upcoming Pittsburgh Permaculture Workshops- register now!

Michelle — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:03:31 +0000

Hey all, please check out the next 2 workshops to happen at the Hazelwood Food Forest. Hope to see you there!

Grafting with Troy Hottle- CANCELLED

April 17th 11am-1pm (yes it’s a Sunday)

Learn the basics of grafting for pome fruits and stone fruits. You will learn how and when to graft in [...]

Food Forest Rain Barrel Demo & Work Day

Michelle — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:18:21 +0000

Spring is finally here! Let’s celebrate by getting our hands dirty at the Hazelwood Food Forest. We need to capture and retain water on the site especially until the young trees and plants are established. This first workday of 2011 will focus on setting up a gutter and downspout for the shed so that [...]

Permaculture Design Certificate Course

Juliette — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:54:30 +0000

This is a reminder… exactly one month until the PDC, register NOW to join us at the Phipps Garden Center!

6 WEEKENDS (January to April 2011): Jan 29-30; Feb 12-13, 26-27; Mar 12-13, 26-27; Apr 2, 9:00am to 4:30pm

– Earn your internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certification! – Share 6 weekends immersed in a fun, [...]

The Food Forest Gets a Tool Shed

Juliette — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:23:09 +0000

Log Cabin Tool Shed

The Hazelwood Food Forest finally gets a tool shed!!! This is very exciting especially to me as I will no longer have to transport tools from my home to the site via my pick up truck! :) The tool shed was designed by Katie Krantz, recent graduate of Slippery [...]

Hazelwood Food Forest featured on the Allegheny Front

Juliette — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:04:48 +0000

Check out this link to listen!

Food Forest Photos

Juliette — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:25:27 +0000

Paw Paw Lou

Monday Workdays 6-8pm

Juliette — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:26:32 +0000

Our workdays have changed yet again!!! Sorry for any inconvience! Please come to the Food Forest to see all of the changes and to help us to complete many projects. Our goal is to have the gathering space completed by the end of summer so that we can begin hosting events in the fall! [...]

Thursday Workdays 6-8pm, now until forever!

Juliette — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:22:58 +0000

We have decided to make Thursdays our on going workday! Please meet us at the site for various work at 6pm until you want to leave!

The weather is supposed to be really great this Thursday, lets hope it holds out! Our attempts to put up the fence on Sunday were impeded by mother nature, [...]

Weekday workdays, anyone?

Juliette — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:22:51 +0000

I would really, really like to get to the food forest site more than once a week. I work full time, but have been thinking that it might be nice to do a few evenings at the site. The trouble is, that the site is SO big and I would be pretty lonely there….all [...]