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By [email protected] (Jake Rayson) on May 16, 2019 05:56 pm
A simple checklist for anyone interested in setting up a Community Food Forest (AKA Community Forest Garden)
Someone on the Forest Garden UK group on Facebook is setting up a Community Food Forest in Middlesborough. (Food Forest is a user-friendly way of saying Forest Garden, I think it’s a more descriptive term.)
I floated the idea of a checklist for anyone else wanting to do the same thing, a quick reference guide.
This is very much a work in progress, so I’ll update this page if I have any suggestions or feedback.
Interested in setting up a community food forest? A list of what you will need and useful things.
People!A small, dedicated core of people who have the grit to see the project through.
AimsA clear idea of what kind of food forest you want, with simple and achievable goals.
VolunteersMore people, invaluable for the grunt work required. Gardening clubs are a good place to look, and cake is a worthy incentive.
LandA site for the food forest. It needs to have secure land tenure for the project to have stability, and not rely solely on goodwill. Depending on your site, access and security may be an issue.
Official supportGet the town/county/city council onside and supporting your cause. Promote your garden in the local press, which also helps get more volunteers.
Useful things
Books
Creating a Forest Garden great step-by-step guide and reference by Martin Crawford
Websites
Useful Temperate Plants — online database of useful plants
Orange Pippin—great resource for fruit varieties
This page: http://simp.ly/publish/5jtTzh
By [email protected] (Jake Rayson) on May 16, 2019 12:39 pm
Perennial vegetables are less work and more nutritious but it’s a big cultural shift to adopt new veg. Here’s a simple table of perennial vegetable equivalents to annual vegetables to help the process.
I was twittering away with @BackyardLarder about how a #ForestGarden can feed a family, and thought a table of perennial vegetable equivalents of annual veg would be handy.
This is a proof of concept really, it uses Markdown tables to create the table, but this website doesn’t support Markdown tables yet, so the @SimpleNote page is displayed in an iframe (ugh) which means the links don’t work!
Prod me & I’ll add more stuff and make it work properly.
