Some say that the most RADICAL thing you can do is grow your own food & resources.
Maybe you’ve already tried & experienced set backs and failures in the past?
Or you just don’t have the time…
Or you’ve heard about forest gardening & want to have a go
but just don’t know where to start?
This workshop series aims to empower you with the information and real life, practical skills you need to revolutionise the way you see and practice growing your own foods and medicines…
The problem with our agricultural & growing models…
The problem is that the age of agriculture has taught us to DOMINATE nature, instead of working WITH nature.
Nature is POWERFUL and when we dominate her, she will always be looking for a way to rebalance.
Our model for the last 20,000 years or so has been to take, take & take some more
- from the soil & the earth.
Forest Gardening
Works is working in balance, helping the most useful wild and perennial plants to thrive over time.
Forest Gardening is a revival of sorts of these old ways - sometimes using new plants as our climate changes - plants, trees and shrubs that require very little maintenance.
This can be a base for a mixed polyculture of annuals and perennials, or can be part of a whole scale agro-forestry system.
(Agriculture with Forest!)
There are soooo many ways to use the principles of Forest Gardening
- whether you have a small back yard, an allotment or a few acres or more.
These versatile principles, once learned can help you to plan a low maintenance, productive system, suited to your needs.
What can be better for the planet than that? All the materials you need - right at your fingertips.
Of course there is more to it that that and we are here to guide and teach the ways we have learned along the way.
And show you our amazing 3/4 Acre Plot
and it’s evolution into the wild and delicious Food Forest it is today.
And how we are scaling this up to become a Land-Based Community of autonomous individuals, working collaboratively and collectively as part of a whole system design!
Join us for a day of Forest Garden Magic at our bountiful permaculture allotment.
The morning - For new Participants
Will be spent looking at forest garden theory and design principles.
Lunch will be a hearty & wholesome affair of homegrown, local & wild produce - Paleo diets, Veggie & Vegan all catered for.
Each afternoon we will get stuck in with some practical seasonal skills:
Summer pruning
Softwood cuttings for propagation
Summer chip bud grafting
Plant ID
Mulching techniques
Building beds
Solar dehydrator
How to plant a tree properly
Hardwood cuttings for propagation
Division for propagation
Winter pruning of fruit trees / Espaliers / fruit bushes
Winter grafting techniques
About Your Course Leader - Scott Baine
Emma Gleave
The Settings
Our 3/4 acre bountiful Rewild Allotment cum Forest Garden is the main setting for the course although from time to time we may run day’s at our other Forest Garden’s around The Forest of Dean - check each event for location details.
Originally set up 8 years ago as a nursery to stock other land projects around The Forest of Dean, this has now evolved into an amazing community space, Forest Garden / Food Forest used by many of The Rewild Project groups.
We have a glass house built by Shift Bristol from reclaimed materials, an outdoor kitchen, and an interesting array of edible perennials, annual polyculture crops and herbal medicinal plants.
Bonuses from The Workshop
Not only will you spend a day in fantastic company of The Rewild Team - going away with some new knowledge of how to set up and maintain your own forest garden, building important transferable key skills such as:
How to read your own landscape
Design Principles
Planting
Garden maintenance
You will also get:
A list of top Forest Garden Plants for your garden.
Knowledge of the best tools for the job
Skills and knowledge to keep maintenance super simple yet yielding food and products
Plants to take away (when propagating has been taught)
Herbal Products to take away (when harvesting & creating products)
Foods & Ferments to take away (when fermenting is being taught)
And always you will go away with new contacts & friendships with people on the same path as you are.
And we hope you keep coming back to learn more new skills each time
For repeat attendees
Because we will be teaching different skills each time, depending on the season - we will give the option of the group being split during the morning session - so that you can choose to do the
‘Introduction to Forest Garden’s’ teaching session with Scott
OR
You can spend time on the allotment learning the practical skills with another member of the team, and engaging with the landscape.
Bookings
Choose as many workshops as you like. Remember the introduction morning session does not need to be repeated for repeat attendees the series is designed to work as a 1 day introduction OR to keep coming back to learn more new skills each time!
Simply add to basket - fill out the form, then go to basket to complete the bookings.