Blog posts
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Biological recording workshop
Clare Flynn ran a fantastic wildlife recording workshop at The People’s Orchard in St Dogmaels, here are my notes to my future self
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Wild Food Corridors
Involving people in the creation of wildlife habitat in public spaces whilst simultaneously providing a harvest is a way to focus minds on our existential environmental threats
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Clay lined pond
Nick Balmer wrote a fantastic summary of creating a clay-lined pond in the closed Facebook Forest Garden UK group, reproduced here with his kind permission 🙂
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Wildlife garden checklist
Inspired by Malcolm Berry’s talk, here’s a simple checklist of invaluable features for your wildlife-friendly garden
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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.