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    Focus on… Forest gardening

    May 25, 2021 5 minutes

    FRUIT and veg gardens don’t need to consist of regimental rows of crops with bare earth in between. Imagine walking in a small woodland glade plucking nuts, berries and herbs – that’s the essence of forest gardening, and it sounds heavenly to me. This kind of gardening is a low-maintenance agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems; key planting elements are fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables. And the great news is that we can all enjoy the benefits of glade growing.

    The concept of this growing method evolved in millennia past alongside the ecosystem, but the idea of using it as a way to cultivate crops was pioneered by Robert Hart in the 1970s, and Martin Crawford since the 1990s. It’s an organic, low-impact method that looks towards the dynamics of a

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