Mon 12 Apr 2021 4:49PM
Calling all members: please comment on our refreshed Strategy
At the final seminar in our winter series in January, which looked at the way forward for forest gardens in communities and for NFGS, we invited all those interested to join us on the board to spend a day thinking through our strategy. Three lovely members showed up not once but twice.
What's assumed in the summary below is that we're going to be focusing on well being for the foreseeable future - because it's a niche we believe where we can offer something unique. Community forest gardening is good for your well being on many levels. We'd like to have your comments back in time for our next board meeting in May, so end of April please. And if you'd like to join the meeting all you need to do is ask.🙂
Deleted account · Mon 12 Apr 2021 6:12PM
So after two strategy meetings with member input and have settled broadly on the following way ahead for NFGS.
We very much welcome your input.
A reminder of our Aim:
Our aim is to bring us individually, and in our communities to a new level of harmony and well being through planting, eating from, and enjoying Forest Gardens.
We intend to meet our aim as NFGS through:
1. Sharing stories of how community forest gardens have come into being, as well as enabling these stories to be told. Remember pictures can be very powerful. We plan to provide a simple story-telling guide to help you tell your story
2. Developing guidelines for engagement of communities so that community forest gardens become a sustainable, rather than a passing feature of community space. These will be drawn from stories and may imply extending our Forest Gardening Principles for Publicly Accessible Spaces
3. Using the resources on the website to back up the arguments for, and tools to support community forest gardens. The stories may illuminate the need for further useful resources
4. Actively promoting the role of mentors - community forest gardeners who can support the process of bringing a garden into being. Some mentors will have greater knowledge of forest gardening, others may have more experience of particular contexts - like NHS settings for example.