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Speakers highlight Miyawaki pocket forests as school and city model
Summary
Planet Wild presented pocket forests using the Miyawaki method as rapid-growth, community-engaged plantings; examples included Sewanoy Elementary in Pelham and school projects in Bridgeport funded by a Connecticut Climate Smart Forestry grant.
Grama Gunther described pocket forests — dense plantings informed by the Miyawaki method — as a way to reclaim small urban and suburban open spaces and accelerate canopy and habitat creation. "These pocket forests act as a kind of buffer to invasive species," Gunther said, and called out school planting projects that included students, PTAs and teachers in both Pelham and Bridgeport.
Gunther noted the Sewanoy Elementary School pocket forest (Pelham) as a local example and said Planet Wild secured a grant with the Aspootuck Land Trust through Connecticut’s Climate Smart Forestry Program to support multiple public-school installations. He also described private-property implementations (a Mount Kisco hedgerow) and a 5,000-square-foot pocket park in Norwalk where a new forest replaced a nonfunctional basketball court.
