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Hogacre Common Eco Park, Whitehouse Road, Oxford

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Hogacre Common Eco Park, Whitehouse Road, Oxford

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Hogacre Common Eco Park, Whitehouse Road, Oxford

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The eco park is a rewilded bit of land that used to be tennis courts and now is home to forests, bee colonies, grass, fruit trees, and a community garden!

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The forest is located in the area called “Isla del Colegio” (College Island), an artificial island named after having belonged to the San Idelfonso univesity dorm, located in the south of the city.

Currently part of the island is still agricultural, dedicated to the cultivation of cereals. The rest of the island has been, partly conditioned as a multifunctional park with asphalted walks and garden areas and partly left fallow. Part of this fallow was dedicated to the urban orchards, leaving an area between the orchards, the park and the river Henares currently unused and this was the area occupied by the edible forest.

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Considering that the river Henares has a protected strip of 100m on each side that is included in the Nature 2000 Network, a natural separation of the area of action of that space was made. This area was specifically destined to be a forest associated to the river and because of that, thorny shrubs were planted to hinder the access to the strip and to allow the natural regeneration of the vegetative potential of the forest.

Outside of the protected area, plants, fruit trees, shrubs, vines, perennial and annual plants are being incorporated. This plantation was based on the creation of a community of vegetation species with high sustainability and low maintenance with which it was intended to imitate the successional dynamics of a forest, planning it in different strata, which in turn would recreate different types of habitats.

The edible forest is a forest orchard carefully designed to obtain food while retaining the benefits of a natural system. The food obtained is not for humans, it is for those animals that find shelter in the forest, that can feed equally and participate in the dispersal of the seeds or the pollination of the forest. In addition, the symbiosis between the roots and the microbial life have been taken into account in its design, considering also the mycological interest in the municipality.

upon the above mentioned, the creation of the forest is requiring an important amount of resources, both personal and economic. But the success of the initiative implies a low maintenance later, since the plant community created continues growing year after year, without the need for new plantings. This is because the vegetation community that has been established, will produce the Looking seeds that will be implanted naturally in the environment.

One of the problems associated with the massive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in agriculture together with intensification and monoculture is the progressive disappearance of pollinating animals, which can result in the decline of entire natural communities. In this sense, nectar species have been planted to attract pollinator insect species.

The strata that allows the creation of this edible forest, as a self-sufficient plant community are, the followings:

1. Straight tall trees: Fruits and nut trees (apple, pear, plum, chestnut, etc.) and nitrogen fixing trees.

2. Stratum low trees: Fruit trees and nuts, dwarf and / or naturally small (nectarine, almond, peach) and / or flowering trees and nitrogen fixing trees (dogwood, ash, etc.)

3. Shrub stratum: Fruit trees and shrubs (blueberries, rose, currant, etc.)

4. Herbaceous stratum: Perennial woody plants (flowers, herbs and ground plants)

5. Soil cover layer: Cultivation of low plants that offer food or habitat, and push their way at the edges and empty spaces between plants (strawberries, cappuccino, clover, thyme, etc.)

6. Stratum of vineyard: Plants that climb the trunks and branches of the trees (grapes, hops, passionflower, honeysuckle, squash, cucumbers, melons, etc.)

7. Root stratum: Shallow roots of food (garlic, onion, radish, carrot, etc.)

The first plantation took place the 25 March 2017 and was carried out by volunteer citizens, so that from the beginning the citizens' involvement in the implementation phase of this nature based solution project it has been important in the way to recover the College Island. After the first plantation, new plantations have been carried out thanks to the Municipal voluntary Programme developed by the municipality where companies can fund plantations projects developed by themselves as a corporate social responsibility actions with which to compensate the impacts derived from their activity.

The idea is to continue increasing the surface of this edible forest in both directions; towards the river and to the urban orchards that are in the island.

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The main objective of the project is to increase the biodiversity of a peri-urban area, re-naturalizing it through the creation of an urban edible forest.

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Delta de la Tordera, Riu Tordera, Blanes

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Delta de la Tordera, Riu Tordera, Blanes

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Delta de la Tordera, Riu Tordera, Blanes

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The Flood Risk Management Plan of the River Basin District of Catalonia includes a measure consisting in the development of a Levee Management Plan for the Tordera, Muga and Ter River basins.

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Parc naturel régional de Camargue, RD 570, Arles, France

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Parc naturel régional de Camargue, RD 570, Arles, France

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Parc naturel régional de Camargue, RD 570, Arles, France

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A large restoration project started in 2011 in the former saltworks of Salin-de Giraud, located in the southeast of the Rhône delta, within the Camargue Regional Natural Park and the UNESCO‘s Man and Biosphere Reserve.

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Transforming a historical park into the biggest water resevoir of the city in case of cloudburst events.

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Oasis Schoolyard Programme, Paris, France

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Oasis Schoolyard Programme, Paris, France

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Transforming schoolyards into green spaces to address heatwave vulnerabilities.

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Parc du Champ des Bruyères, Avenue des Canadiens, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France

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Parc du Champ des Bruyères, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France

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Parc du Champ des Bruyères, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France

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Transforming an old hippodrome into a natural urban park with an edible forest

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Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, Province of Salerno

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Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, Province of Salerno

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Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, Province of Salerno

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Margherita di Savoia, Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani

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Margherita di Savoia, Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani

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Margherita di Savoia, Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani

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OrtiAlti, Via Goito, Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin

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OrtiAlti, Via Goito, Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin

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OrtiAlti, Via Goito, Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin

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Stelvio National Park, Via Alberto de Simoni, Bormio, Province of Sondrio

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Stelvio National Park, Via Alberto de Simoni, Bormio, Province of Sondrio

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Stelvio National Park, Via Alberto de Simoni, Bormio, Province of Sondrio

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Parco Regionale della Maremma, Via del Bersagliere, Alberese, Province of Grosseto

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Parco Regionale della Maremma, Via del Bersagliere, Alberese, Province of Grosseto

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Parco Regionale della Maremma, Via del Bersagliere, Alberese, Province of Grosseto

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Pantelleria Island National Park, Pantelleria, Free municipal consortium of Trapani

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Pantelleria Island National Park, Pantelleria, Free municipal consortium of Trapani

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Pantelleria Island National Park, Pantelleria, Free municipal consortium of Trapani

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Delta del Po, Porto Tolle, Province of Rovigo

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Delta del Po, Porto Tolle, Province of Rovigo

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Delta del Po, Porto Tolle, Province of Rovigo

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Cinque Terre National Park, Province of La Spezia

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Cinque Terre National Park, Province of La Spezia

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Cinque Terre National Park, Province of La Spezia

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Laguna di Venezia, Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice

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Laguna di Venezia, Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice

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Laguna di Venezia, Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice

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Parco Sempione, Piazza Sempione, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan

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Parco Sempione, Piazza Sempione, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan

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Parco Sempione, Piazza Sempione, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan

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Bosco Verticale, Via Gaetano de Castillia, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan

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Bosco Verticale, Via Gaetano de Castillia, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan

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Bosco Verticale, Via Gaetano de Castillia, Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan