Building food forests in Australia's Amazon Basin region
Bundoora VIC, Australia
RestorationTR
Tree Federation
Nonprofit, Government
Treepedia is developed by the MIT Senseable City Lab and aims to raise awareness of urban vegetation improvement using computer vision techniques applied to Google Street View images. The interactive website uses Google Street View data to measure the urban "Green Canopy," or the aboveground portion of trees and vegetation in cities around the world. Treepedia allows users to view the location and size of their city's trees, submit information to help tag them, and advocate for more trees in their area. Through monitoring urban tree coverage, citizens and planners can see which areas in their city are green and not green, compare their green canopy with other cities, and play a more active role in enhancing their local environment.
Project story
Tree Fedeartion is a 40-hectare regenerative farm and open knowledge collective in the foothills of the Amazonian Basin, where every tree, hedgerow, and pollinator strip is treated as both a living asset and a data point. We grow food the way a forest grows itself—in layers, in relationship, and without depleting the ground beneath us.
What we do
We practice syntropic agroforestry, interplanting fruit and nut trees with nitrogen-fixing species, perennial vegetables, and understory crops so the system feeds itself. Chickens and a small herd of sheep follow a rotational grazing pattern that builds topsoil instead of stripping it. Over five years we've turned compacted, monocropped land into a mosaic that sequesters carbon, holds water through drought, and produces a genuinely diverse harvest.
But the "pedia" in our name is the heart of it. Every planting, every soil test, every failed experiment and surprising success gets documented and shared openly. We're building a community-owned reference for what actually works on the ground—not in theory, but in this soil, this climate, this season.
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Building food forests in Australia's Amazon Basin region
Bundoora VIC, Australia
RestorationTR
Tree Federation
Nonprofit, Government
Treepedia is developed by the MIT Senseable City Lab and aims to raise awareness of urban vegetation improvement using computer vision techniques applied to Google Street View images. The interactive website uses Google Street View data to measure the urban "Green Canopy," or the aboveground portion of trees and vegetation in cities around the world. Treepedia allows users to view the location and size of their city's trees, submit information to help tag them, and advocate for more trees in their area. Through monitoring urban tree coverage, citizens and planners can see which areas in their city are green and not green, compare their green canopy with other cities, and play a more active role in enhancing their local environment.
Project story
Tree Fedeartion is a 40-hectare regenerative farm and open knowledge collective in the foothills of the Amazonian Basin, where every tree, hedgerow, and pollinator strip is treated as both a living asset and a data point. We grow food the way a forest grows itself—in layers, in relationship, and without depleting the ground beneath us.
What we do
We practice syntropic agroforestry, interplanting fruit and nut trees with nitrogen-fixing species, perennial vegetables, and understory crops so the system feeds itself. Chickens and a small herd of sheep follow a rotational grazing pattern that builds topsoil instead of stripping it. Over five years we've turned compacted, monocropped land into a mosaic that sequesters carbon, holds water through drought, and produces a genuinely diverse harvest.
But the "pedia" in our name is the heart of it. Every planting, every soil test, every failed experiment and surprising success gets documented and shared openly. We're building a community-owned reference for what actually works on the ground—not in theory, but in this soil, this climate, this season.
Project updates
Team
Location
Bundoora VIC, Australia