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The Sidmouth Civic Food Forest

On January 18, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Is The Recently Endorsed Sidmouth Civic Food Forest A First For UK? Spanning a Whole Valley & Civic Administration In East Devon It Could Be a Global First. The Sidmouth Civic Food Forest was recently endorsed by Sidmouth Town Council, whose administrative area covers the whole of the Sid Valley & River Sid catchment area in East Devon.… More Leave a comment

How To Design a Food Forest aka Forest Garden

On August 26, 2024 By Stefan Drew

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It’s Relatively Easy to Design a Food Forest in the UK. Just Follow The Blueprint Nature Provides. Nature Has Designed Food Forests For Millenia & Has Perfected The Food Forest Model. Nature’s model however doesn’t normally include some of the plants we can use, simply because they are not native to the UK.… More Leave a comment

Sidmouth Community Food Forest … The Video

On March 28, 2024 By Stefan Drew

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Recorded as part of the Devon Wildlife Trust Wilder Communities Programme Winter Series Three Gardens are featured with our presentation starting at 41 minutes in. In the presentation we were asked to focus on our aims, history, successes, failures and challenges.… More Leave a comment

The 2.42 Billion Food Forest Tree Planting Plan

On December 14, 2023 By Stefan Drew

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How Will The Biggest Food Forest Tree Planting Plan In The World Affect Water Catchment In The Indian States Of Karnataka & Tamil Nadu? And What Lessons Can UK Gardeners & Farmers Learn? For years Indian farmers were advised to fell trees because they robbed their crops of water and nutrients.… More Leave a comment

Our Sidmouth Community Food Forest Progress; Autumn 2023

On September 20, 2023 By Stefan Drew

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Creating a Food Forest From Scratch Has Been Taxing & Rewarding In Equal Measure. We’ve Learnt a Lot, Including Pacing Ourselves & Learning Something New Everyday. We’ve Also Harvested Crops In Our First Year. Though often claimed to be a new concept in the UK my grandfather harvested multiple crops from his food forest during WWII and later.… More Leave a comment

The Sidmouth Community Food Forest in April

On April 5, 2023 By Stefan Drew

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The Sidmouth Community Food Forest in April. Though Only Weeks Old Fine Weather Is Helping Us. Take An Online Tour & See What Is Growing. It’s April and, though only weeks old, our new community food forest is taking shape. We’ve now held three volunteer sessions, moved and spread a lot of woodchip and created beds in which to plant.… More Leave a comment

Field Notes from a Forest Garden: A new beginning

On May 24, 2022 By Emma Pilgrim

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More of us are growing our own food as we want to know the origin of what is on our plate whilst improving our health and wellbeing. Considering, that just in urban areas, there are an estimated 800 million of us, growing vegetables in anything from pots through to allotments, we can make a vital contribution to our food supply. … More Leave a comment