Forest Garden Wales

The direction of gardens is wild

There’s a whispering paradigm shift underway, with wildlife being quietly welcomed back into our gardens from many mainstream media quarters. For 3 consecutive weeks, Gardeners World has highlighted a wildlife allotment (clip on Vimeo), a rewilded garden in Suffolk and Kate Bradbury’s Springwatch garden. All we need is to add some plants for a future and segueway gracefully into the #ForestGarden 

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#peatfree petition

I had been working on a

petition

to ban the use of peat in horticulture, with help from

John Walker

. But,

pipped me to the post. 

So,

sign his petition

! Tell your friends, family, relatives, complete strangers. I made a website

www.peatfree.org.uk

with some big buttons and key facts.

Learning from the land

I’ve been working at a local organic market garden to make ends meet. It has been an eye-watering eye-opener: the level of organisation, graft and accuracy. To quote Martin Crawford “For land-based work, you have to be efficient”, & I bring this efficiency to my redesigned perennial veg beds.

Wild Food Corridor

My pilot project in Aberystwyth to create wildlife habitat edible crop strips in urban areas is well under way. The local community centre, primary school and council are all behind the project. For a taster, here are some notes. More news to follow when it happens 🙂

Hear me roar talk

I now have two speaking engagements this year, one at a gardening club in Haverfordwest, another for a local branch of the University of the Third Age (not as wacky as it sounds btw). Only 173 slots remaining for 2019, book me now.