Green Pocket Forests
Americas / Asia
Green Pocket Forests is an initiative to green urban spaces using the Miyawaki method.
Green Pocket Forests
Our mission is to green urban spaces using the Miyawaki Method, an ultra-dense planting method. We work with schools, cities, corporations, and organizations to facilitate a community-building planting process that results in greener, healthier, and more connected communities.
Miyawaki Forests Benefits:
- Ultra-dense planting method of only native saplings
- Grows 10 times faster
- Stores 30 times more carbon
- Generates 100 times more biodiversity than conventional forests
- Drought tolerant – little to no watering required after 3 years
- Low maintenance after planting
- Enhances soil biology and mycelium saturation
- Average of 90% survival rates
- Self-sufficient ecosystem after 3 years
- Forests grow very densely, on average a higher leaf density per square inch
Our Impact
Together with our partner SUGi project and Berkeley Schools we created the following impact:
- Engaged 200+ volunteers, 40+ teachers, and 1,000+ school children planted 3 forests in 6 weeks
- Planted 3,300 saplings
- Each forest hosts 75 different types of native species
Program Director and Lead Forest Maker
Photo Credit: Kelly Sullivan
Neelam Patil, M.Ed, MFA
Program Director and Lead Climate Literacy Educator
Press
TIME Innovative Teachers list 2022
Educational climate literacy readies young people for understanding, action
Berkeley Schools Look to Plant Trees (NBC Bay Area News)
Berkeley Schools Sow the Seeds of Climate Change
Berkeley science teacher wins Time magazine innovative teaching award
‘An unstoppable force’: Neelam Patil named a TIME Magazine Innovative Teacher
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More photos of the forests