Martin Crawford, a well-known British champion of Forest Gardens.
Photo by London Permaculture.
This free tour presented by Shantree Kacera for Transition Middlesex takes place at the Living Centre (follow link for directions).
Ever since I learned about Forest Gardens, the idea just made sense. Here was an approach where you look at pointers from ecology, and applied them to the growing of food forests where every aspect of the design had been considered and reconsidered.
As I learn more about permaculture, the field modern forest gardens have come out of, I've had to come to terms with their being no easy and fast way to set-up a forest garden - like any forest, we can't expect the sort of turn-around we do with typical buildings being constructed, for instance. It takes time for a forest garden to grow into what it will eventually be: a beautiful and functional landscape that provides food, fuel, and 'farmaceuticals' as well as building and textile materials for humans and animals alike, all while being highly resilient to pests and climate fluctuations, improving the water table, and absorbing CO2.
Shantree Kacera will be giving a tour of his own forest garden, likely the oldest in Canada, but based in a slightly longer tradition from England (see photo above of Martin Crawford, a guru in the field of forest gardens). Shantree will give an introduction to the idea of forest gardens, a bit about how they work, and will be ready to answer your questions.
The Living Centre, where the tour takes place, is run by Shantree and his wife Lorenna. They offer courses in Forest Gardening, permaculture, raw-food cuisine, primordial movement and many other fascinating fields.
(Note that this post previously had a typo saying the tour was on Sept 21 - it's on Sept 12 - sorry for the inconvenience.)
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