Yummy jungle, here we come.
Food forests, food gardens, you have them in all scents and colors. We call it a yummy jungle or as Bart Backaert translated it into Oalster a Smuljungle .
Aalst is blessed with many nice green areas where there are already plenty of experiments with edible trees and shrubs. Did you know, for example, that the Yellow Kornoelje in the Shelfhout domain is on the heritage list and that you can make delicious jam from it. That the Schaarbeekse Kriekenboom is one of the last remaining of its kind and that brewery De Block from Dendermonde wants to breathe new life into this variety. It will only make your mouth water and especially get you craving for more tasty stories.
This time we get the chance to start from a blank sheet and create and tell our own stories by turning a new patch of green into an edible park. Place to be will be the vacant lot where the Sint-Job rest home used to be.
How it started.
Trees De Bruyne founded bARK.today to make it easier for people to start a food garden or forest. That is an alibi to bring people together and get back in touch with nature. Anyone who knows Bart a little knows that as head of the landscaping department of Aalst, he is not only an ecological pioneer and a great storyteller, but above all he also has the gift of connecting people. In the meantime, we are working with a number of local organizations and hopefully also with you to make Sint-Job the tastiest green place in Aalst.
This is what the place looked like on December 14, 2021
What kind of goodies would you plant?
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Together we imagine the space.
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