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Forest Gardening

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Before the ‘communications age’ we had an industrial civilisation.  Our capacity to invent and make tools took us to these advances.  Before all of that we developed our agriculture – perfecting techniques of husbandry for animals and production of field scale crops, from grain through vegetables.  Before all that we were hunter gatherers. »

Scottish Apples & Apple Day

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I became interested in Scottish Apples in the 1980’s.  Apple trees are a real asset in that they produce edible fruit.  They are also a model for creating and managing diversity.  Anyone who grows their own will tell you about the joys of taste and seasonality. In an ideal world we would all enjoy food that... »

Agroforestry

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Agroforestry is what you get when you think about forest gardens farming scale.  By combining trees, pasture, arable crops and any other elements of the landscape appropriate to need and conservation we can disgn and build environments where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  In recent times in Britain we... »

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