Extended Online Forest Gardening / food forests course
Do you want a more extensive online course?
This course is an extension of the online forest garden video course with extra content and live sessions. It is the nearest thing to actually coming to Dartington for a live course.
What does this course consist of?
- 16 video episodes with accompanying pdf notes
- 13 video lecture episodes with accompanying pdf notes
- 7 tours of different forest gardens, from newly planted to well established, along with two detailed pdf site booklets
- A design exercise with individual feedback
Can I learn at my own pace? Yes absolutely. You can work through the materials as slow or fast as you want.
How long are the materials available? You have unlimited access to the materials for ever (or as long as the internet lasts, anyway)
What if I’ve already purchased the Online forest garden video course? If you would like to upgrade to get the extra content available in this extended course then please contact us. On checking your membership we can then offer you a £199 discount on this course.
Can I get funding anywhere?
We don’t give grants for our courses but you might be able to apply for grants from:
– For professional gardeners – https://pgtrust.org/
– Also from rhs.org.uk/bursaries
– LANTRA are also funding participants on our courses under S34 – Next Generation
Extended Online Forest Gardening / Food forests Course
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16 Video Episodes
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13 Video Lectures
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Extensive course notes
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Design exercise with feedback
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Account Registration Required
Course Episodes Index:
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Video 1: Introduction to Forest Gardens
- Lecture 2: The design process
- Video 2: Windbreaks and Shelter
- Lecture 3: Hedge and edge design
- Video 3: Fruiting Trees and Shrubs
- Lecture 4: Species choice, soils and climate change
- Video 4: Trees and Shrubs for Nuts and Seeds
- Video 5: Trees and Shrubs for other Edible Uses
- Lecture 5: Canopy and shrub layer design
- Tour of Dartington forest garden
- Video 6: Designing the Tree Layer
- Lecture 6: Some tree and shrub crops
- Video 7: Nitrogen Fixing Trees and Shrubs
- Tours of young forest garden with nurse shrubs
- Design exercise outline
- Design exercise instructions and materials
- Design exercise – post exercise comments
- Lecture 7: Fertility in forest gardens
- Video 8: Low Shrubs & Perennial Crops
- Video 9: Designing the Understorey Layers
- Lecture 10: Designing the ground layers
- Tours of small/young forest garden
- Video 10: Soils
- Lecture 8: Ground preparation and planting
- Video 11: Planting Trees and Shrubs
- Video 12: Forest Garden Fungi
- Lecture 12: Short-lived plants, climbers and fungi
- Video 13: Plant Propagation
- Lecture 9: Propagating plants
- Video 14: Forest Garden Fertility
- Tours of newly planted forest garden
- Video 15: Clearings, Ponds and Paths
- Lecture 11: Clearings and paths
- Video 16: Trees for Urban forest gardens
- Lecture 13: Irrigation and maintenance