On Saturday, La Chaux-de-Fonds in western Switzerland inaugurated Europe's tallest urban edible forest with the planting of a small-leaf lime tree. Between now and 2032, 900 new plants, including 300 trees and shrubs, will be planted over an area of 3,300 square metres in the Paddock park. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "As part of the replanting work carried out after the storm, the site was identified as an area suitable for the planting of many new trees, to compensate for the losses suffered in 2023 and strengthen the urban canopy," Edgar Ramel, landscape architect for the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, told news agency Keystone-SDA. An initial planting campaign was carried out there in 2024, with the creation of a micro-forest and the planting of high forest trees. These initial achievements attracted the interest of the association Les Jardins du Mycélium, which proposed that the town create an edible forest. Such a plantation at this altitude remains ...
