Online courses

Shortage of money has never been a problem for me to do a course. So if there is a will there is a way. Online or in person. Cover my travel, food and accommodation and give me a few good djembes and we are on ;)

How many djembes?? Seriously thanks for this. I will get back to you…………..

Maurice.

I’m running a weekly forest garden lockdown livestream, every Wednesday 10am BST.

This week, Wednesday June 3rd, I'll be “soft launching” my free mini-course ‘Make a forest garden plan’; it will be on Udemy in a couple of weeks but I'll put a preview up on Vimeo in the meantime.

• Livestream 10-10.30am: https://twitch.com/forestgardenwales

• Zoom Q&A 10.30-11am: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76063329967?pwd=UkJZN3RCcmRscysycUlPNldNSzk0dz09

• Zoom password: strawberry

• Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/4f6fd5a58e54/forest-garden-plantsfree-livestream-qa-wed-27-may-2751804

I'm probably going to call the course ‘Make a Backyard Forest Plan’, to get across the idea that you don't need a vast space to create a forest garden. I know, it's probably a perennial topic but I do get people commenting on the forest aspect all the time!

Big thank you to everyone who's been watching and attending, and also to @Hannah Gardiner and @Paul Pivcevic for the seminar series, that was great fun 😄

Hello all - we've just had a Board meeting and propose that rather than promoting commercial services (courses, tours etc) here on loomio that we set up a dedicated page on the website for this. In this way we build a directory over time to be able to offer as 'national' a service as we can to which all will have access. Can I test we are happy with this?

I’m previewing my complete online course for the next 8 weeks for my #ForestGarden Lockdown Livestream. This Wednesday 10th June 10am BST, I'm starting with “Introducing the Backyard Forest”, followed by a Zoom Q&A. I'll post recordings on my YouTube channel

• Livestream: twitch.com/forestgardenwales

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKXKUlYUniJwEy1Lkvs78qw

• Full details: https://www.forestgarden.wales/blog/forest-garden-course-livestreamed-free-over-8-weeks/

Part 2 of the online course preview is now on YouTube, ‘Plan a Backyard Forest’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucktxcnZQPE

Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3tnDlJcXMk9VLsc_KU0Ovv4spw5X9yIy

And details of the next part of the course, Part 3 ‘Design a Backyard Forest’
https://mailchi.mp/25008cbaa3b0/backyard-forest-online-course-03-design

🙂

Hello everyone, I wanted to pick up on the issue of posting information about services (courses etc) on Loomio. Paul posted some time ago that in future we wanted to keep posting of services off Loomio and I am now pleased to say we have now set up a way to do this on our website; https://nationalforestgardening.org/news/offerings/ Please see the accompanying attachment for how to make a posting onto the web site. Many thanks.

I have an online introduction to forest gardening especially for community forest gardens coming up next month. Who do I send the details to?

Hello rak,

Thanks for your message and please just send the text/message to Joe in cc and he will review and action on or after Wednesday this week.

Have a good week.

Richard

Thank you. Will try and do it today.

Sorry I cannot find Joe's contact. It does not show up here.

Hi Richard, sorry it's taken so long to get this to you. Can you please pass this on to Joe or whoever needs to approve it. I cannot see Joe's name in the CC section. it just has your name on it via Loomio.

Online Forest garden design intro especially for community gardens

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PART 1: introduction on how to design food forests
- This course will be run on 4 consecutive Thursdays in September.
- 18:00 to 22:00 UK time
PART 2: Design your own forest garden or community forest garden + how to implement. Date and time to be confirmed during part 1
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 is in 2 parts, the first part will give you the tools you need to design your own forest garden.
The second part will give you an opportunity to design your own place with the help of others. You will also learn how to implement your designs.

====== DATES & MORE DETAILS ON WHAT TO EXPECT ======
PART 1 First 4 session ( Introduction to forest gardening)
Thursday 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th 18:00 - 22:00
This section of the course 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
YOU CAN ATTEND JUST THE FIRST 4 SESSIONS AS A STAND ALONE COURSE

PART 2 Next 8 sessions (Work on real designs and implementation
Participants who want to continue to make a real design will be invited to part 2 where you will support each other to design your own forest garden and look at how to implement your designs.
Dates to be confirmed during part 1
This is where you start to make your own designs. You will
- Make maps and gather the right information to make a design
- Identify your needs and the lands needs
- Make a design for yourself or help someone else (if you do not have a place to design yet)
- Learn how to implement your designs (where to start)
- Make a succession plan (how the forest garden grows and matures by itself)
- Think about any maintenance
- Think about how you harvest your yields
- Water management
- Tree and plant guilds
YOU MUST HAVE ATTENDED THE FIRST 4 SESSIONS OR HAVE DONE AN INTRO COURSE WITH RAKESH TO JOIN THIS PART
After the course is finished we will continue to support each other with implementation. Dates for this are not confirmed yet (we will do this during the course, depending on peoples needs).

====== LEAD FACILITATOR ======
The course will be led by Rakesh “Rootsman Rak” - experienced Permaculture designer, teacher and Forest Garden specialist, yoga teacher and homeopath. He has been growing food since he was a child, and has been designing and teaching edible landscaping, permaculture, forest gardening, etc since 2009. Rakesh has designed and implemented forest gardens from small-scale private gardens and schools, to farms, community gardens, communal nature gardens, as well as designing a forest garden on part of a 30-hectare ecovillage in Croatia.

====== 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 £10 and £40 per day (i.e. between £40 and £160 for the first 4 session or between £120 and £480 for all 12 session. 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
https://forms.gle/tMuyiWugFdUfbDxEA ( https://forms.gle/tMuyiWugFdUfbDxEA?fbclid=IwAR2Dr3mXGWjXchlRHQJPnDwDFVF6k5L-6u6bbYYtkpwvOEy92DdsqDUSvgM )

Dear Rakesh,

Greetings.

Please note Joe's email was included in my response to you before and I have included it here again.

Joe over to you please.

Thanks both

Richard

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