Last weekend we ran an Urban Forest Garden workshop in Sydney… it was a great weekend of design, thinking and planting…

Alexandria Park Community Garden, with it’s slowly emerging sub-tropical forest garden…

‘Reading the landscape’ exercise…

Basic site mapping and a bit of triangulation…

Garden border planting…

Dan Harris Pascal discussing with the class the understorey plants available to plant out…

Dan with a little bit of comfrey

Dividing comfrey root up from planting…

Guild planting around fig tree – ground covers, dynamic accumulators, green manures and more…

And a bunch of resources, including roots, seeds and tube stock, for each student to take home to create their own forest gardens…

A great big thankyou to all the students who made this weekend so full of fun as well as learning! Also thanks to Dan Harris Pascal for his teaching and stewardship, and to Adam Kennedy for making the weekend flow…

I’ll post some more of the student resources for this course shortly but you can access the reading list for this course here: Food Forest Garden: books and resources

You might also want to have a look at the excellent food forest at Happy Earth, just sound of Sydney, or our own emerging temperate Forest Garden system at Milkwood Farm

And our next Urban Forest Garden course is in Sydney in November! Yay!