In Person Forest garden Course Newcastle 29th & 30th July

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This is a comprehensive stand alone introduction course to making food forests

Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th July 2023

@Scotswood Garden, Yewcroft Ave, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 6TU

Imagine your garden or community space looking as lovely as a woodland edge. Imagine that on top of looking wonderfully wild, it produces an abundance of nutrient dense food and will ultimately need very little digging, weeding, manual watering or pest control - all in harmony with animals and other beings (eco friendly and vegan). This is ‘an edible forest garden’.

Forest gardening is a way of growing food where nature does most of the work for you. Modelled on natural woodland, crops are grown in different layers from high and medium sized canopy to roots, ground cover and climbers. And its not just food and medicine you will get from the forest garden, there are many more yields.

Through careful planning plants are chosen which have beneficial effects on each other, attract beneficial insects and create a healthy biodiverse rich system that maintains its own fertility. Once established, your main task will be harvesting!

==== WHAT TO EXPECT =====

This workshop gives you the tools you need to design your own forest garden.

You will learn about the basics of designing a forest garden. You will get to understand - How to select the right plants for your environment - Where to place them to ensure they thrive - How to ensure you have the right nutrients cycling to ensure good crops - History of forest gardening - Why make a food forest - Layout of a forest garden - Multifunctional pathways - Creating abundance and resilience - Low maintenance food growing - Patterns in nature for forest gardens - Understanding and maximising edge

==== COURSE COSTS ====

We want this course to be accessible to all and are therefore working in a conscious contribution system, inviting you to pay what you can afford towards meeting the needs of the facilitator(s). We therefore invite those who can pay more to help those who cannot afford as much.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this.

Suggested contributions of between £50 and £200 (ideal contribution £120)

If you cannot afford this then PLEASE get in touch and we will work something out that is mutually beneficial.

==== REGISTRATION ====

To register for this course, please click on the ticket section below and fill in the form (make sure you hit the submit button, after which you will get an email confirmation). If you do not get an email confirmation, have any difficulty filling it in or have any questions please feel free to contact Rakesh

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==== THE VENUE ====

Scotswood Garden Yewcroft Ave, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 6TU

Scotswood Garden is an award winning charity and Permaculture Land Project in the west end of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Designed by permaculturist Ed Tyler on the site of an abandoned playing field. The garden is a thriving, green oasis at the heart of a disadvantaged community. The garden covers just over 2 and a half acres. It includes ponds, woodland, perennial meadows, scrubland, a no dig vegetable plot and forest gardens.

From its humble beginnings in 1995, the vision was to be a flourishing permaculture site providing a productive, bio-diverse garden that would be a tool for urban regeneration bringing nature into the city. The charity's mission is to, ‘inspire and promote learning about nature, the environment and sustainable living, whilst having a positive impact on people’s health and wellbeing.’

The charity supports up to 4000 people a year, using nature-based interventions proven to improve health, build connections and develop skills. Their community work broadly fits into 5 strands: - Volunteering and Adult Wellbeing - Education & Training - Youth & Play Services - Older People's Programmes - Community Outreach and Events

==== LEAD FACILITATOR ====

Rakesh "Rootsman Rak" is an experienced low impact living designer and teacher from the UK, specializing in community resilience, permaculture, creating food forests and low maintenance food growing systems. He has worked as an advisor to several community projects in London and throughout Europe and has taught in many countries around the world. Rakesh has turned his dyslexia to his advantage by developing talent for observation and hands-on learning and teaching methods. At a young age, he established a successful computer consultancy and, after achieving financial independence, acquired skills as a homeopath and yoga teacher which he put to use in Ananda Marga humanitarian relief projects in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Along with Permaculture Rakesh focuses on the human skills of communication and planning so necessary for successful communities. http://rootsnpermaculture.com/

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