| View this email in your browser | Forest Garden Livestream | Wednesday 3rd February, 10am GMT | Forest garden landscaping | Welcome back to the newsletter! I spent January landscaping an eco-home development, with fruit trees, fruit hedging, native ground cover and yes, a bit of lawn as well. This Wednesday at 10am GMT sees the return of the Forest Garden Livestream and I will be talking about my experiences, design decisions and reflections. | There will be an informal Zoom meeting afterwards at 10.30am for questions and discussion, all welcome. The password is landscape. | | Eco-home development in the snow | | Livestream | | Zoom Q&A | Zoom link Time: 10.30—11:00am Zoom password: landscape
| | Share | | | Forward | | | NFGS Well-being seminar Wed 3rd Feb | If you haven’t had enough of me by the morning, I will also be facilitating the National Forest Gardening Scheme’s third Winter Seminar 7.30-9pm, all about “Designing and Delivering Forest Gardens for Well-Being”. I’m really looking forward to it, the speakers are Kaye Tong from MacGregor Smith and Jo Barker, well known permaculture designer and kinesiologist. | Kaye will be looking at the theories behind healing qualities of gardens and why forest gardens in particular are so good. Jo will be examining the meaning of well-being and how to integrate it with ecological design at each stage. | | | | Changes | There’s quite a few changes going on around here. Firstly, I’m going to increase the price of the Backyard Forest online course. Currently I’m earning about £50-100 a month, which although very welcome and much appreciated, isn’t enough for me to dedicate more time to developing the course. So, I’m going to increase the price to £180 in the next couple of weeks. If I can double my income, then I’m going to start creating another course, using CAD for designing a forest garden. | The next big thing is that I’m making a grant application for a wild flower gallery with commissioned photographs. There’s a lot of paperwork involved (setting up a CIC, making a grant application, opening a bank account…) but the idea is to have Creative Commons licensed, stunning photographs of wild flowers in an ornamental setting to really promote the use of native plants in gardening. | Finally, I will be reorganising the business, so that the educational stuff (courses, workshops and livestreams) will come under a separate banner from the forest garden design side of things. Names to be announced soon! | | Share | | | Forward |
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