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From Flood Zone to Food Forest
In 1992, a flood wiped out homes on Kilrush Drive in Lexington, Kentucky, prompting a radical shift: instead of building walls, the city bought out the houses and let nature reclaim the land. By 2000, they’d turned the floodplain into open space, mowing it for 15 years. Then, in 2020, Geomancer Permaculture proposed a bold twist—turning it into Kentucky’s largest urban food forest, planting 100+ fruit and nut trees. Now, with help from city crews and mushroom growers, this once-devastated area thrives as a public, edible oasis, proving that sometimes, the best solution is to work with…
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