Blog posts
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Designing wilderness well
If you create any wildlife friendly space, a forest garden included, care is required to design it well, so as to maximise the benefits.
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Forest garden ground cover preparation
The “traditional” way of clearing the ground is to use sheet mulch. An alternative and possibly less wasteful way is to scrape the ground with a mini-digger.
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Forest garden CAD photo
Using a satellite photo as the basis for your forest garden plan is a good and quick way of creating an approximate plan without having to measure out in the field.
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Community Food Forest
A simple checklist for anyone interested in setting up a Community Food Forest (AKA Community Forest Garden)
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Perennial alternatives to annual vegetables
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.
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Lynda’s Tayberry fedge
A fedge (or dead hedge) can have many uses, one of which is as a support for scrambling soft fruit like the Tayberry.
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Recycled ever-expanding plant labels
These nifty plant labels keep on expanding with a growing branch, and are easy to make from old plastic milk bottles.
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How to establish ground cover in a forest garden
A step-by-step guide to establishing a living ground cover: to protect the soil, create a habitat for wildlife and provide you with a harvest. Win, win, win.
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Forest garden plan
This is the CAD plan for Forest Garden One
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Ornamental Forest Garden plan
This is the CAD plan for the Ornamental Forest Garden