in Person Forest garden Course London 12th and 13th August

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This is a comprehensive stand alone introduction course to making food forests

Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th August 2023

Goodmayes, Ilford, Essex.

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 gives you the tools you need to design your own forest garden.

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

==== 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 £50 and £200 (ideal contribution £120)

If you cannot afford this then PLEASE get in touch and we will work something out that is mutually beneficial.

If you are local to Goodmayes park and can dedicate time to design and implement our new community forest garden, we have a special deal for you (depending on your commitment level this could be for free).

Please contact Rakesh for more details

==== 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

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==== THE VENUE ====

To be given after registration and payment has been made.

==== LEAD FACILITATOR ====

Rakesh "Rootsman Rak" is an experienced low impact living designer and teacher from the UK, specializing in community resilience, permaculture, creating food forests and low maintenance food growing systems. He has worked as an advisor to several community projects in London and throughout Europe and has taught in many countries around the world. Rakesh has turned his dyslexia to his advantage by developing talent for observation and hands-on learning and teaching methods. At a young age, he established a successful computer consultancy and, after achieving financial independence, acquired skills as a homeopath and yoga teacher which he put to use in Ananda Marga humanitarian relief projects in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Along with Permaculture Rakesh focuses on the human skills of communication and planning so necessary for successful communities. http://rootsnpermaculture.com/

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