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Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 24th February, 10am GMT

Wild flowers in a forest garden

A forest garden is a way to grow food with nature, and what can be more natural than native wild flowers? I’m fascinated by the potential of wild flowers to bring together different horticultural worlds: ornamental, wildlife and edible.

To that end, I’ve set up a project called Garden Wild which aims to promote the use of native wild flowers in all forms of gardening. I’ll be introducing the project in this week’s livestream!

Afterwards, there’ll be an informal Zoom chat at 10.30am, all welcome.

Demo of a wild flower gallery website

Livestream

• Date: Wednesday 24th February

• Time: 10—10.30am

• Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales

Zoom Q&A

• Zoom link

• Time: 10.30—11:00am

• Zoom password: teasel

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Recording of Community Forest Garden livestream

WLast week’s livestream about Community Forest Gardens is now on YouTube. 

Here are some handy links:

• National Forest Gardening Scheme

• NFGS forum​

• Simple constitution

• Social Farm & Gardens

• Keep Wales Tidy (cheap Public Liability Insurance)

• Swansea Community Growing Network

• The Orchard Project​

• Citizens Assemblies

• Extinction Rebellion

• WordPress free website

• Weebly free website

• Telegram messenger for groups

• Zoom meeting software

Complete forest garden course still 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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