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  • Wednesday & Thursday, July 22 & 23 – Northeast Miniforest Summit: Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method, Live and Online

    The Bio4Climate Annual Miniforest Summit on July 22 and 23 brings together municipal leaders, researchers, designers, educators, students, scientists,
    and community members to exchange research, emerging questions, and field-based experience. Registration is now open for the 2026 Northeast Miniforest Summit: Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method

    Across the Northeast and beyond, communities are planting and stewarding miniforests in schoolyards, parks, campuses, farms, urban spaces, and other underused landscapes.

    This year’s Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and forest stewards to share lessons, refine practices, and explore how miniforests can restore ecological function and reconnect people with place.


    The goals of the summit are to:
    Create long-term regional infrastructure
    Accelerate and expand knowledge of miniforests
    Build community
    Create momentum to build a thriving miniforest network across the Northeastern United States and beyond

    Learn more and register at https://bio4climate.org/

  • Thursday, July 24 & Friday, July 25 – Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method, Virtual and Live

    Miniforests, also known as Miyawaki forests and pocket forests, are an incredibly beneficial tool in our toolbox as we work to restore, sustain, and increase biodiversity. Grow Native Massachusetts is partnering with bio4climate and others for the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit Register today at bio4climate.org. The two day event takes place July 24 and 25 – part virtual, plus a live bus tour. Consult the website for details.

    Across the Northeast, communities face ecological disruption—rising temperatures, shrinking habitats, degraded soils, and stormwater runoff. But there’s growing momentum: more people are planting miniforests using the Miyawaki Method—or adapting it—to restore life to cities, schoolyards, parks, and vacant lots.

    Featuring more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour, the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields—including landscape architects, scientists, and community organizers—to unpack the method from root to canopy.

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