Forest garden in early spring (ie still plenty of frosts)

Garlic coming up, and all the chickens a-laying...

Spring is slowly but surely springing at Milkwood, and our new forest garden is beginning to wake up from the cold and grow, grow grow!

Peach tree on a frosty morning. Photo by Adam Shand

Sabina installing dripper line for watering in the hot months ahead

One of the geese who has decided to nest in the forest garden. Very hissy towards all comers.

Garlic chives and Russian Olive

Intern Adam Shand and Dan Harris Pascal, our food forest whisperer.

The comfrey is going nuts, the fruit trees have all flowered, the green manure plants are coming up, and all the currants, trees and groundcovers we planted during our last Food Forest Garden Workshop are as happy as can be.

Now that the drip irrigation is getting sorted, we can even be fairly sure that even if we get a very harsh summer, the forest garden will make it through! It’s already a beautiful place to be, and it will only get greener and more forest-like as the season goes on.

Looking forward to our first peach of the season…

• Milkwood Food Forest Garden posts + resources
• Milkwood Food Forest Garden workshops (at Milkwood and in Sydney)