| View this email in your browser | Forest Garden Livestream | Wednesday 10th February, 10am GMT | How much for a forest garden? | After working on a 10 garden eco-home development, using forest garden techniques, I thought it would be interesting to look at how much it would cost for planting and building a complete forest garden on a 1 acre greenfield site. | Many people will quite readily spend thousands on a new kitchen, whereas many few will spend a similar amount on a forest garden. | There will be an informal Zoom chat afterwards at 10.30am, all welcome. | | Wood chip mulch. You’ll always need lots of mulch! | | Livestream | | Zoom Q&A | Zoom link Time: 10.30—11:00am Zoom password: mulch
| | Share | | | Forward | | | Photo gallery of forest garden plants | We’re still working on the forestgardengallery.uk. The photos are organised along the lines of Martin Crawford’s book Creating a Forest Garden, the same as the Forest Garden Spreadsheet. We are currently researching about 460 plants, and plan to upload about 2,000 photographs. | You can help speed things, by doing some picture research! I have written up instructions, plus I've made a 9 minute YouTube video explaning the research process. There’s also a supportive Telegram group. Email me hello@forestgarden.wales for details 🙂 | | | Course still only £99, soon to be £180 | 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 Telegram group to help answer any questions you may have. | I will be increasing the price of the course to £180 in the next month, so that I can spend more time developing the course. So, take advantage of the low price now! | 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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