The latest 12 months have been really disaster from forest gardening point of view. After a mild winter 2016/2017 began rearing year 2017 with prolonged drought and icy conditions until late May, with the result that the fruit set on most things, more or less failed to materialize. A cool and dry summer was followed by a much too wet autumn, which is really bad for invintringen […]
It's quite far apart the posts on this blog right now, the reason being that we are about to finish writing the last pages in our forthcoming book on timber gardening and do not have time for much else writing at the moment. At the same time, however, move a little on the frontier of forest gardening and here […]
Year 2016 we plan to implement three basic courses in forest horticulture. The first will take place here in Stjärnsund in cultivation zone IV / V on 3-5 June and includes three days. In this course we will transform a rather ordinary, upbringing villa garden forest garden! The course also includes visits to both Putt Myra forest garden and Diversity in the garden […]
I have planted so many different nut trees in Putt Myra forest garden partly because I'm on the hunt for crops that can replace the usual staple crops in the form of cereals and potatoes, but also oilseeds and protein-rich legumes. An important parameter to keep track of, then, of course, the nutritional content of the nuts. First, the nuts […]
Between April and October 2014 we conducted our (and Sweden) first 72-hour course on forest gardens. The course was a great Succé och in March 2015 begin the next course. We learned a lot during the implementation of the first course and have made some improvements, while continuing with the successful basic concept. Course description is now up on […]
