BLUFFTON — Dr. Jacob Buchanan, an assistant environmental science professor and an M’Della Moon endowed chair in botany and environmental science at Bluffton University, will present Feeding People and Wildlife: Establishing a Food Forest with Native Plants at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 at the university’s Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Buchanan will discuss the native food garden he installed with students the past spring and summer with a focus on agroforestry, biologically integrated farm systems and permaculture as models of a more sustainable agriculture. The presentation will also include the history of the garden’s location, the process of crop breeding and domestication, issues with conventional agriculture and the benefits of native plants.
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