Nature Works | View this email in your browser | | Beginner’s workshop, rejigged | I have decided to rejig my beginner’s forest garden workshop so that it’s only one evening a month, the first Monday 7-9pm, with a Zoom seminar to discuss plans. Also, it will be free, with the opportunity to make donations. | Hopefully this will mean more people coming in to forest gardening. For more details of the workshop, see natureworks.org.uk/courses/realtime | The next workshop is Monday 6th December 7-9pm, please do share with people you think may be interested. | | | | Wednesday 8th December, 10am GMT | Dead hedges | Finally, a whole livestream about my all-time favourite forest garden feature, the dead hedge! | Dead hedges are simply some sticks in the ground filled up with old garden rubbish. | But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of their design and construction, as they are chock-full of stacking functions: windbreak, plant marker, habitat and handy place to chuck your stuff that otherwise you would have put on the bonfire. | As always, there will be a Zoom get-together at the end of the livestream to wax lyrical about dead hedges. Oh, and anything else related to forest gardens. Everybody welcome 🙂. | | I think I might have mentioned dead hedges before… 🤔 | Livestream | | Zoom chat | Zoom chat Password: stacking Time: 10.30—11:00am
| | Share | | | Forward | Forest Garden Plant of the Moment | | It’s time to start harvesting Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) once the foliage has died back and them tubers won’t be getting any bigger. Because they contain a lot of inulin, Jerusalem Artichioke can give a lot of people a lot of wind. Alison Tindale at Backyard Larder has various recipes. The only one that cured the effects for me has been fermenting, so here is my Sauerchoke recipe. | | | November’s livestream: Paths | The video is up on my Nature Works YouTube channel. | | | Tending the Wild | This is an amazing book. It tells the story of the indigenous Californian people who managed the land to cultivate incredible natural (sic) diversity. | It makes for great reading for any gardener, forest gardener, landscape professional, historian, anthropologist and ecologist. | If you can’t afford to buy a copy, then you can read the book online for free at Archive.org. | | Share | | | Forward | | |
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