Urban Forest Gardens

[bikerchickfrommars]

bliss! inspirational.

[AllSectorsHearThis]

I have a 4 pole allotment in west london but have not had the time or money to do more than clear the rubbish and get it mostly level. I would like to establish a forest garden but need help designing and finding plants on a tight budget. Any suggestions?

[quercusrobur2002]

@themightyscythe - there are plenty of more explanatory videos out there, eg, Martin Crawford, Geoff lawton, the old Robert Hart film that is now available on youtube, I just set out to capture a bit of the magic of some urban forest gardens I know of (including my own) rather than produce a 'how to' documentary

[marchbabymimi]

Beautiful!!

[gardenearth]

Delicious! Thanks for posting this!

[pdsavage]

great video except the purring sound wich drives me nuts....

[Ullbritt]

wikipedia is your friend

[karmendra]

best music video i have ever seen!

[karmendra]

is that french?

[pookiroo]

Go fly a kite. Most of us who live in the city don't have near as much space as you.....

[quercusrobur2002]

I don't have the space to fly a kite but i do have space for a small forest garden... My garden is tiny but I've managed to fit in a few apple trees on dwarfing root stocks as well as various fruit bushes and perennial vegetables and edible leaves. Re this film, one of the forest gardens is on a standard sized allotment, which most city people would have access to, the other 2 are community projects, one being a nursery school in North London, the other a community garden in south London.

[Permaculturebella]

Here the sites don't look like woods, but more like gardens with trees planted within them. We have tried to grow a forest garden on our Permaculture Smallholding East Yorkshire England. The problem is competition for light and high levels of light needed to fruit. We planted apples, plums, mulberry, hazelnut, cherry plums, chestnuts 8 years ago. Hybrid fruit trees have been bred to grow in high light so our trees are 'poorly' fail to thrive and no fruit. Do you know of others in North UK?

[motzadog]

Great video - was it a cat purring - or some kind of strimmer?

[quercusrobur2002]

Its a sample of their cat purring - tried to paste in a link to PinknRubies website but somehow it seems Youtube won't allow it. Do a Goggle search for more info!

[GraemeOfCawdor]

This song is great!!!

who is the artist?

[quercusrobur2002]

its PinknRuby, from their album 'Garden' (song used with permission, both band memebers are working towards their diploma in Permaculture)

[ripple1983]

Great video

[zezt]

really wonderful and inspiring!