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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

• Date: Wednesday 3rd February

• Time: 10—10.30am

• Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales

Zoom Q&A

• Zoom link

• Time: 10.30—11:00am

• Zoom password: landscape

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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!

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