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Welcome to the Silvaners.org wiki!

Silvaner is a new word that comes from the latin word silva, silvae (forest, woods) and gardener. This is a new hobby and job, and this is one of the most important ones of the 21st century - and hopefully for the upcoming centuries.

Silvaners.org WILL allow anyone to start an edible forest project, select plants and get out there! All edible forests designs WILL BE open sourced and publicly available.

The project is currently starting and we expect to welcome first users by the end of summer 2020.

Open sourcing edible forests designs

We learn from others, mainly by speaking with each other, but also by reading books, browsing websites and watching videos. We want to make it easy for anyone to "read" an edible forest design, pick data that is useful to their own project and get in touch with the community, locally or globally. Your neighbours projects are probably interesting to follow for feeding your own project.

Funding edible forests

Apart time and energy, starting an edible forest project costs money. We need plants and tools, or maybe even a piece of land. Silvaners.org wants to put funders in the loop by being an Open Collective. Anyone planting an edible forest project would be able to send pictures and a receipt for tree planting or tools. The community as a whole, represented by its Funding Circle, would accept the expense and reimburse the fellow silvaner. For land ownership, we don't know yet how we could really help - we are open to ideas!

Tools for local communities

Individuals, but also city councils, businesses and non-profit, can learn from watching what's happening over the edge, in the next neighbourood, the nearby town or factory garden. We want to provide them tools to make it easy to discover, learn and literally step into the "tree generation". Anyone should be able to follow projects, organize an online videoconference about edible forests or even lobby for a citizen-owned or employee-owned edible forest.

Documentation is critical. We want to provide an organized wiki that anyone can edit, improve and translate. That's about designs, resources, plants, whatever topic that would be useful to the next generations of silvaners.

Being resilient

Relying on an online tool might someday become an issue. We want to make it easy to export a project to a master spreadsheet and printable documents. Sending an email to a specific email address, without even accessing the website, would send a reply with these attached documents.

The tool itself will be hosted on 100% renewable energy-powered servers.