NYC’s first-ever ‘mini forest’ coming to Roosevelt Island this spring
NY Post
New Yorkers will soon be able to see a forest through the concrete jungle.
The Big Apple will welcome its first-ever mini forest this spring when a planting initiative that’s been blooming across the globe takes root on Roosevelt Island.
Dubbed the Manhattan Healing Forest, the small patch of land on the southern tip of the island between Manhattan and Queens will be the first of its kind in the city, featuring more than 1,000 different native plants, according to its creators at the SUGi Project.
It will only be about 2,700 square feet — or slightly smaller than a tennis court — but has substantial ecological benefits, project leaders said.
“We’re an island. We think about flooding, we think about storm surge, and the best treatment is to plant a tree,” Christina Delfico, founder of nature nonprofit iDig2Learn, which is helping to lead the project, told the New York Times.
“The roots will stabilize the land. With good soil, there won’t be flooding. The concrete jungle needs pocket forests,” she added.
