FORT BRAGG, 4/25/23 — The Noyo Food Forest, on the verge of demise last year, blew back with the full force of the westerly winds Saturday for its marquee annual event in Fort Bragg. Each year the Food Forest celebrates Earth Day at the forest’s garden grounds at Fort Bragg High school with a big comeback this year and news that Fort Bragg High School has hired a teacher who will make the learning garden his or her classroom.
Volunteers greeting people at Saturday’s free event counted 1206 attendees, who were able to visit over fifty booths, even on a windy day. There seemed to be about that many parked cars when this reporter arrived at 1 p.m and had to park blocks away at Redwood Elementary School. Every sports field was also churning with Little League and school baseball and softball games. Everybody on the coast seemed to be out doing Earth Day stuff, even though the official Earth Day was actually on Thursday. Maybe it was no surprise that the coast got a late start on 4/20.
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