Forest Garden News — How Much?

Forest Garden News — How Much?

February 04, 2021

Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 10th February, 10am GMT

How much for a forest garden?

After working on a 10 garden eco-home development, using forest garden techniques, I thought it would be interesting to look at how much it would cost for planting and building a complete forest garden on a 1 acre greenfield site. 

Many people will quite readily spend thousands on a new kitchen, whereas many few will spend a similar amount on a forest garden.

There will be an informal Zoom chat afterwards at 10.30am, all welcome.

Wood chip mulch. You’ll always need lots of mulch!

Livestream

Zoom Q&A

  • Zoom link

  • Time: 10.30—11:00am

  • Zoom password: mulch

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Photo gallery of forest garden plants

We’re still working on the forestgardengallery.uk. The photos are organised along the lines of Martin Crawford’s book Creating a Forest Garden, the same as the Forest Garden Spreadsheet. We are currently researching about 460 plants, and plan to upload about 2,000 photographs.

You can help speed things, by doing some picture research! I have written up instructions, plus I've made a 9 minute YouTube video explaning the research process. There’s also a supportive Telegram group. Email me [email protected] for details 🙂

Screenshot of online course

Course still only £99, soon to be £180

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 Telegram group to help answer any questions you may have. 

I will be increasing the price of the course to £180 in the next month, so that I can spend more time developing the course. So, take advantage of the low price now!

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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