| View this email in your browser | Forest Garden Livestream | Wednesday 17th February, 10am GMT | Community Forest Gardens | Community forest gardens are a way to pull together a local community, sharing in the running, the tasks and the harvests. Like allotments, they’re also essential for those who don’t have their own gardens or access to green space. | But how do you set one up? What’s the best way of organising the group? Where can you get funding from? I am just starting out on my own Community Forest Garden journey, so will share with you what I have learned so far. | There will be an informal Zoom chat afterwards at 10.30am, all welcome. | | Community volunteers for The People’s Orchard in Poppit Sands | | Livestream | | Zoom Q&A | Zoom link Time: 10.30—11:00am Zoom password: commune
| | Share | | | Forward | | | Forest Garden Spreadsheet | This online, sortable spreadsheet lists all the plants in Martin Crawford’s seminal book Creating a Forest Garden, using data from the most excellent Plants For A Future website. For details on how to sort the spreadsheet, see this video here youtu.be/vo-IJlHf5hM | | | | Complete forest garden course only £99 | 3.5 hours of condensed forest garden knowledge, showing you how to create an edible ecosystem in your own backyard, each step of the way. There’s also a supportive WhatsApp group to help answer any questions you may have. | The slides are freely available on backyardforest.uk and this is the course structure | Intro Why growing edible crops with nature is so important Plan Observations to make, wishes to list & mapping your patch Design How to put things in the right place Protect Windbreaks & other tricks to protect your precious plants Perennial Veg Resilient & low maintenance veg are on the menu Canopy Plant the big trees, the canopy layer Ground Prep Ways to clear the ground, so as to plant your plants Shrubs & Cover Shrubs away & keep the ground covered
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