Bio4Climate Director of Regenerative Projects Alexandra Ionescu recently spoke with the Boston Globe about the growing interest in the miniforest movement in the Northeast and beyond, featuring our friends at the Pearl Street Garden Collective and Groundwork Rhode Island.
“In 2021, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and SUGi teamed up to plant the first Miyawaki forest in the Northeast in Cambridge’s Danehy Park, a former landfill. Massachusetts now has at least 20 microforests, according to Alexandra Ionescu, a Providence resident who is associate director of regenerative projects at Biodiversity fora Livable Climate, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that promotes ecosystem restoration to address climate change. And she expects to see many more in the region in the years ahead.
‘A lot of people right now are feeling the effects of climate change and they want to take meaningful action. It responds to the energy of those who want to engage in earth repair,’ Ionescu said.
These small but rapidly growing forests help clean the air and create a unifying focal point for the community, proponents said.”
Posted: October 17, 2025