..., from network-building to community gardens, all of which could/should... at the high school garden, the community forest garden, the local organic food... the canopy in my own forest garden, all the while being somewhat...
... a large "market" style garden along with the local high...of the neo-forest planted beside the vegetable gardens. It was initially... purchase materials needed for the garden; composts etc. I have ..., but that exposure to gardening for young children can result...
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:07 am, April 8th, 2024 - 91 comments
Categories: climate change
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As a gardener, I've noticed one of the …, mass restoration of ecosystems including forests (not forestry), and shifting to…
... Wai Pounamu, visiting community and forest gardens, as well as a raft... of backyard gardens, collecting plants and broadcasting my...
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:00 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 58 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, food forests, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
… an early climate change adaptor. Forest gardens like mine – intentional combinations of… of a forest garden results in thinking that leads the forest gardener into believing… lips of the conservative gardener, seeing a forest garden for the first time…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:30 am, December 11th, 2016 - 22 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
… The atmosphere in a forest garden is very different from … ground level in the forest garden where everything eventually ends … the atmosphere of the forest–garden becomes one of thriving healthiness…effect on perceptions in the forest garden, is the paths. …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:23 am, November 20th, 2016 - 10 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: green activism, ood forest, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…equal disorder. As the forest garden becomes more and more … fundemental concept for the forest gardener and one that's not… tipped over. In the forest garden, the multitude of variety,… naturalistic but mindfully managed forest– garden that will have the …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:21 am, December 18th, 2016 - 22 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
… they came from my forest garden, I'm certain enough to…towns throughout the country. Forest gardening is popular already and keen…the established plants in the forest garden. I cultivate free-form… for their own budding forest garden, I believe I'll see…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:22 am, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: green activism, ood forest, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…difference between a forest garden and a food forest and that’s… managed than my rambunctious forest garden and their plate-ready … from others in the forest gardening movement. So long as…everything that grows in our forest garden; the pearly-white roots…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:27 am, December 4th, 2016 - 11 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…native plants is one forest gardeners in New Zealand struggle… the framework of my forest garden, thanks to my earlier… caterpillars from the surrounding forest garden, resulting in almost completely… early years of the forest–garden. South American tubers, …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:27 am, November 27th, 2016 - 28 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…have built our forest around them. Other forest gardens in warmer parts… are everywhere in our forest garden, but don't stand alone…heritage apple tree in the forest garden, signal to the bees…their expected lives. Our forest garden is by no means exclusively…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:48 am, December 25th, 2016 - 32 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
… further, and let the forest garden shape itself. It's doing… challenge encountered in the forest garden, with a practice that…footed wandering about in the forest garden, rather than pushing a…their steps. I recommend forest gardening to anyone and everyone …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:00 am, October 30th, 2016 - 12 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…. Once you've heard of forest gardening you'll want to know how… start, is important. A forest garden can be created anywhere in… the world. City forest gardens exist, and you can …that was to become today's forest garden. But fortunately for us …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:30 am, October 9th, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, food forests, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…the very few tasks a forest garden demands of its keepers….constitute the framework of the forest garden, along with the supporting …into the greeness of the forest garden and provide shelter from … can survey much of the forest garden, its canopy anyway, and…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:45 am, November 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…fill the air of my forest garden with the angry-wasp …last thing a plant-loving forest gardener would want to do. As…be carried out under the forest gardening system and the softness of… are plants themselves. If your forest garden-to-be consists of hard…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:15 am, April 11th, 2021 - 30 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: food forests, forest, forest gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener, robyn guyton
…particulars of their food forest, he's also describing …of the modern food gardening movement that arose …subcultures. Humans have always forest gardened, in New Zealand when…fact forest gardening along with hunting/gathering and cropping. Forest gardening is…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 20 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, food, sustainability
Tags: food forest, food forests, green activism, resiliency, resiliency gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener
…oldest food forest in NZ. A long time organic gardener, permaculturist …change adaptor. In my pre-forest garden period, 28 or more … saw it. My home gardening activities were stymied somewhat by… wander happily amongst; a forest garden that has become an on…
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:03 pm, August 7th, 2019 - 129 comments
Categories: climate change, Conservation, Environment, uncategorized
Tags: robert guyton forest gardener, wilding pines
…but neither does livestock farming. Foresters have a long way to… thinking to multi-faceted, forest-based thinking will be aided…allowing wilding pines to create forests and then sustainably log … firewood. What that mixed forest then gets 'used' for would…
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:59 am, February 13th, 2020 - 67 comments
Categories: climate change, farming, food
Tags: Alan Savory, food security, Geoff Lawton, permaculture, regenag, regenerative agriculture, robert guyton forest gardener
… and his wife Robyn's food forest in Riverton, now over two… raised the temperature of the garden allowing a wider range of…
...chemical trespass though, my forest garden was trespassed upon by ... I've always said the forest garden is the most resilient ...is strengthen my claim that forest gardens are indestructible. Floods may...often said, but my forest garden will shrug off all threats...
... farmers who visited the forest garden last week and enjoyed ... been secreted throughout the forest garden and conceiving of and ...The paths all through the forest garden are sound, if convoluted ...in the now-ink-black forest garden… there’s sonorous whistling;...
...short film made about our forest garden by Happen Films and ...intention of taking their own gardens to the next phase, .... I've visited several food forest/forest gardens around New Zealand and while...reckon as the need for forest gardens will be intense soon, ...
...expansion to the community garden/forest garden/orchard network across Southland,...are all in my forest garden presently and the discussions ... talking about how such gardens are "safe storage" ... projects like the Community Forest Garden (we're going there next...
...for me). If it's the forest garden I'm talking about, I ...Questions from visitors to my garden are too varied to characterise...video or read about the forest garden before arriving, often in their... buy land in Portugal and forest garden it, so talking, late ...
...to a simpler life and forest gardens for miles. In the... Or community, retrofitting, and forest gardens. There is a method to...dead set on pushing gardening. In gardening design, after making ...Robert describes for his garden. Seven forest layers may not be...
...employ but I've slipped into forest gardening for its expression. Here's ... link into our recently-published "Forest garden - Autumn" on Youtube, in.... I see the temperate forest garden, such as my 25 ...on. A multi-layered forest garden is also a template for...
...) said. We'd like to open forest garden up to people in need... healing dip in a wild garden forest. Even a day spent amongst... breast (or beast). I'd give forest-bathers here plants to plant... the opportunity to "become" the garden and also increase the random...
... as it does here. Forest gardeners I know living in the... north do draw their gardens up through kikuyu and ...they use. I've visited beautiful forest gardens in kikuyu country, but they've...any other pejorative way, as forest gardening is not a war against...
... most important function of a forest-garden is not the production of... in the minds of the forest-gardeners and the people who visit... change our ways and the forest-garden: part civilisation and part wilderness...
...about integrating edibles into native forest really interests me. I ...look different from "natural" native forest, but it did already, ... by me. Starting a forest garden from scratch is also something... did, and achieve a forest garden however working to a plan...
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:19 am, August 10th, 2016 - 57 comments
Categories: activism, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: climate adaptation, future-proofing, green activism, resiliency, sustainability, the commons
…oldest food forest in NZ. A long time organic gardener, permaculturist …there'd be a lot of gardeners out there who found … what they've always done – garden, filling their properties with plants…I first began planting my forest garden here in Thames Street. …
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