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a forest garden ... or food forest ...
Chatting to our local Visual Impairment Group during one of our talks in the last 18 months made me realise there are too few places for them to visit. So we decided to make another one. We found an overgrown spot near the Food Bank Garden and in 2014, started work on clearing it with our fabulous Wwoofers, and Emmeline and Aristotle (the splendid vegetation munching pigs.) In amongst all the other jobs, over the summer the space started to appear. So in 2015, we made the most of our advantage and got cracking. And so began the first task of our Wild Thursdays teams.....to find out more, click here.
1. Take one overgrown area.
2. Draw a plan.
3. Add pigs, Wwoofers and hours and hours of scything.
4. Keep scything.
5. Find the largest wheelbarrow in the northern hemisphere and heft vast quantities of bracken and bramble into temporary compost heap.
6. Rediscover the parts of the orchard you hadn't seen for two years.
7. Get more help from Wwoofers.
8. Start seeing the shape appear.
9. Use Pallet Sign to remind yourself what you're aiming for and to explain the emerging shapes.
10. Remember to sit down occasionally.
11. Start digging paths.
12. Dig more paths and line with cardboard (thank you, Down the Line Surf shop in Hayle).
13. Pile top soil and earth into large pile, on cardboard.
14. Bring on several tonnes of woodchip.
15. Don't stop now. There's almost a path...
16. Gather more unsuspecting Wwoofers. Show them the mound of earth and excite them with visions of creating a Hillock of Happiness.
17. One hard morning's work later...
18. Weeded, de-rooted, cardboarded and mulched...with the first fragrant plants in place...
19. Amazing what you find en route. This fella grabbed us round the ankles and threatened to eat our knees. It's an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar. You take it seriously.
20. Stones start to make some splendid seating...
21> And before you know it, you have a Hillock of Happiness...
22. (or the Mound of Meditation. You can choose. )
23. And then again, the Stone Seat of Serenity is very enticing...
24. And finally - our first Wild Thursday, with our Dose of Nature team getting very crafty and dreaming up wind chimes like nothing you've ever seen.
The amazing autumn sunshine is helping the design process along nicely.
It can get quite complicated.
And needs plenty plenty dexterity.
But before you know it, a tree becomes an art and sound installation...
The hum of creativity needs...
...lunch!
Previous life: washing machine. Current life: the perfect rocket stove.
Nothing escapes the gimlet eyes of the Wind Chime Making Team..
Willow and dog wood make fantastic wreaths to use as the top hanger.
Now the buttons have a new purpose.
Twine, pine cones and bamboo...there's no stopping her.
Ta Da!!!
And old roof tiles come in splendidly handy...
And explain the Wind Chime installation perfectly.
My creation. A wooden wind chime. Amazingly satisfying.
Beautiful name for an apple...
Roof slate, twine and chalk marker..
The perfect way to identify all the apple trees!
When confronted by a tricky to spell word, suggest someone else does the writing...
Alison's beautiful lady bird!
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