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Forest Garden News — Paper Map
Forest Garden News — Paper Map
Forest Garden Livestream
Wednesday 30th January, 10am GMT
Making a paper map
A very merry festive season to you all 🎄🙂💚
Making a plan, so that you leave enough room for your trees and windbreaks, is one of the most foundational and things you can do at the start of your forest garden, and it needn’t be complicated.
Learning CAD is a great if you’ll be doing more than a couple of plans, otherwise good old-fashioned paper is more than sufficient. In this week’s livestream, I’ll go through the key points to remember (scale, aspect and angles) to help you create your very own paper map of your land.
There will be an informal Zoom chat afterwards at 10.30am, all welcome.
A simple paper plan. Simple is good.
Livestream
Date: Wednesday 30th January
Time: 10—10.30am
Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales
Zoom Q&A
Time: 10.30—11:00am
Zoom password: paper
Photo gallery of forest garden plants
This is a photo a Chinese Dogwood fruit, amazing isn’t it? There’s slowly more photos being added to forestgardengallery.uk. The idea is to mimic the structure of Martin Crawford’s seminal book Creating a Forest Garden, plus the spreadsheet of all the 400+ species.
If you’d like to help, I have written up instructions, plus I've made a 9 minute YouTube video explaning the research process. Email me [email protected] for details 🙂
Course only £49.98 until 21st January!
A few months work went into making this rather comprehensive useful course. Normally sells for £99 but I have a special offer on until 21st January, only £49.98. In the grand scheme of a garden, this is a small investment. Plus, there’s access to a friendly and helpful WhatsApp group.
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
