Hannah Lewis
Author, international speaker, sustainability consultant, and advocate for ecological restoration, specializing in the Miyawaki method for rapid reforestation.
Presentation Theme
Mini-Forest Revolution: Rewilding our communities for Climate Resilience
Hannah Lewis
Hannah Lewis is the author of Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World (Chelsea Green 2022), which was translated into French and Italian, and is the 2023 winner of a Nautilus Book Award.
Hannah has an MS in Sustainable Agriculture and Sociology from Iowa State University and a BA in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College.
She lives in Minneapolis, where she works for the non-profit Renewing the Countryside to build sustainable local and regional food systems and plant mini-forests.
Description of the talk
What holds hundreds of species, sequesters 500 lbs. CO2/year, is several degrees cooler than its surroundings, soaks up lots of rainwater, and is co-created by children and their elders in spaces no bigger than a tennis court? A “mini-forest” planted using the Miyawaki Method, of course.
After a couple of years of weeding and watering as needed, these nascent forests form a canopy and – like any other healthy ecosystem – become self-sufficient.
We’ll discuss what a mini-forest is, what it can do for your neighborhood, what goes into planting one, and why people all over the world are organizing their communities to plant mini-forests in the small spaces around where they live and work.
