| View this email in your browser | Forest Garden Livestream | Wednesday 24th February, 10am GMT | Wild flowers in a forest garden | A forest garden is a way to grow food with nature, and what can be more natural than native wild flowers? I’m fascinated by the potential of wild flowers to bring together different horticultural worlds: ornamental, wildlife and edible. | To that end, I’ve set up a project called Garden Wild which aims to promote the use of native wild flowers in all forms of gardening. I’ll be introducing the project in this week’s livestream! | Afterwards, there’ll be an informal Zoom chat at 10.30am, all welcome. | | Demo of a wild flower gallery website | | Livestream | | Zoom Q&A | Zoom link Time: 10.30—11:00am Zoom password: teasel
| | Share | | | Forward | | | Recording of Community Forest Garden livestream | WLast week’s livestream about Community Forest Gardens is now on YouTube. | Here are some handy links: | | | | Complete forest garden course still 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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