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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

• Date: Wednesday 17th February

• Time: 10—10.30am

• Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales

Zoom Q&A

• Zoom link

• Time: 10.30—11:00am

• Zoom password: commune

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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

1. Intro Why growing edible crops with nature is so important

2. Plan Observations to make, wishes to list & mapping your patch

3. Design How to put things in the right place

4. Protect Windbreaks & other tricks to protect your precious plants

5. Perennial Veg Resilient & low maintenance veg are on the menu

6. Canopy Plant the big trees, the canopy layer

7. Ground Prep Ways to clear the ground, so as to plant your plants

8. Shrubs & Cover Shrubs away & keep the ground covered

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