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Jun 2022
Long Lands Common organisers aim to create food forest on Harrogate green belt
The team behind Long Lands Common is set to unveil plans to create a food forest on Harrogate's green belt.
Long Lands Common is Harrogate and Knaresborough's first community owned woodland and nature reserve.
It was established after around 3,000 people bought shares in Long Lands Common Ltd and raised almost £400,000 to purchase 30 acres of land near Nidderdale Greenway at the end of 2020.
Now organisers want to spend the small amount of surplus money they raised to buy an extra four acres of Harrogate green belt and plant a forest that would be a source of local food.
The company, which is a community benefits society, is to hold its AGM on Saturday, June 25, when the proposal will be put to shareholders for approval.
Secretary of Long Lands Common Ltd, Chris Kitson, told the Stray Ferret :
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What is a food forest?
Kate Wilkinson is a horticulturalist who specialises in permaculture design and is advising the Long Lands Common team.
She says at one point the ancient forest of Knaresborough would have been a food forest -- local people would have had the right to forage for naturally grown food such as mushrooms and blackberries.
She said the concept is the same when you create a modern food forest:
The Annual General Meeting will start at 11am at Long Lands Common where the committee is also organising a picnic day.
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