Forest Garden. A Forest in a Garden? Or a Garden in a Forest? Point is, it's about working with the grain of a multilayered, multihabitat, multibenefit structure and system of a forest, but using it to grow food. Oh, and it looks wildly beautiful. What's not to love.

Permaculture principles: Love Your Edges and Manage Your Resources well - use what you have.

Permaculture Principle 3: Obtain a Yield!

I. Just. Love. Sunflowers. Look at it. Flippin' gorgeous.

Integrate Don't Segregate...Mix It Up!

Go, and get lost in the undergrowth. What a delicious delight. How many years since you've done that?

Trying to move old shelving for repurposing. Young chickens have already decided their purpose is even better.

Yup. Frost. Even this far west. Never used to happen....

Winter. Shockingly beautiful.

Food Bank Garden, January. Raspberries transplanted into well rotted 1 year old horse manure. Yum.

Happy Raspberries - Food Bank Garden.

Aristotle and Emmeline Pankhurst doing a truly stonking job of helping clear the future Sensory Garden of bramble and bracken.

I love you. Do you have anything to eat? Did I say I love you?

Local surfboard packaging used as mulch for our blackcurrant plantation. Perfect.

Oh, yes. Lots and lots of nuts...

A special oak tree, in honour of a young boy who died too soon. Our privilege to be its guardian.

The satisfaction of successfully pruning and mulching DOZENS of blackcurrant bushes is RIDICULOUS.

If you listen carefully, you can probably hear the hum of the bees from there....

It's quite sad, really. He went into that four days ago with his secateurs. No sign since...nice chap. Ah, well.

Gorgeous hellebore: one of the first feasts for bees as they wake up from hibernation...

Early spring sees this crawling with baby bumblebees and honey bees; and come mid-summer, actually vibrates with the numbers of bees feasting...

We've had words with the chickens; they quite like this too. Here's where large plastic bottles come in handy while it gets going in the spring!

And it is. Permanently brilliant. :)

Always worth pointing out!

Helps to know! And nicer than a stern Do Not Disturb sign...

Great for explaining why this area looks so wild. That's because... it is!

Baby bumblee plus cotoneaster = bliss.