Livestream—Dead Hedges

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Beginner’s workshop, rejigged

I have decided to rejig my beginner’s forest garden workshop so that it’s only one evening a month, the first Monday 7-9pm, with a Zoom seminar to discuss plans. Also, it will be free, with the opportunity to make donations. 

Hopefully this will mean more people coming in to forest gardening. For more details of the workshop, see natureworks.org.uk/courses/realtime

The next workshop is Monday 6th December 7-9pm, please do share with people you think may be interested.

Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 8th December, 10am GMT

Dead hedges

Finally, a whole livestream about my all-time favourite forest garden feature, the dead hedge!

Dead hedges are simply some sticks in the ground filled up with old garden rubbish.

But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of their design and construction, as they are chock-full of stacking functions: windbreak, plant marker, habitat and handy place to chuck your stuff that otherwise you would have put on the bonfire.

As always, there will be a Zoom get-together at the end of the livestream to wax lyrical about dead hedges. Oh, and anything else related to forest gardens. Everybody welcome 🙂.

I think I might have mentioned dead hedges before… 🤔

Livestream

• Date: Wednesday 3rd November

• Time: 10—10.30am

• Livestream: youtube.com/c/natureworksgarden

Zoom chat

• Zoom chat

• Password: stacking

• Time: 10.30—11:00am

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Forest Garden Plant of the Moment

It’s time to start harvesting Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) once the foliage has died back and them tubers won’t be getting any bigger. Because they contain a lot of inulin, Jerusalem Artichioke can give a lot of people a lot of wind. Alison Tindale at Backyard Larder has various recipes. The only one that cured the effects for me has been fermenting, so here is my Sauerchoke recipe.

November’s livestream: Paths 

The video is up on my Nature Works YouTube channel.

Tending the Wild

This is an amazing book. It tells the story of the indigenous Californian people who managed the land to cultivate incredible natural (sic) diversity. 

It makes for great reading for any gardener, forest gardener, landscape professional, historian, anthropologist and ecologist.

If you can’t afford to buy a copy, then you can read the book online for free at Archive.org.

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