A Look Inside New Jersey’s Tiny Forest Movement

“Our forest, like our town, is very tiny,” says Dorothy Foley of Merchantville, which is just over half a square mile. “I have to be honest, it was unbelievable how fast it grew.” 

A year ago, Foley, head of Merchantville’s volunteer Green Team, helped plant a patch of land near the town’s railroad tracks with what she called a “ridiculous” number of trees and shrubs,…