View out recent AGM here: Video playback timings 00:00 – 07.30 Introduction and context of the wellbeing crisis (Richard Luff) 07:30 – 23:20 Green social prescribing, forest gardening and presenting an exciting new garden in a local hospital (Nickie Bartlett) 23:20 – 38:00 Connecting Forest Gardening and Wellbeing (Jo Barker) …
Forest Gardening for Well-being; Mind, Body and Ecology Coming Together We at NFGS feel strongly about the potential of forest gardens to improve wellbeing, and in our winter seminars we are exploring the potential of forest gardens in healthcare settings. We will hold four seminars; a complementary series but each …
The NFGS currently has 6 directors. As a CIC the NFGS operates to fulfil its social purpose of supporting and promoting forest gardens. All directors currently provide their services pro bono i.e. gift their time in service of the organisation. We are looking for two additional directors in order to …
Seminar recording: May 7th Tomas Remiarz, author of Forest gardening in Practice was our guest presenter for last week’s seminar. We’ve been amazed that so far all seminars have been oversubscribed. If you’d like to see a recording of the discussion in which Tomas brings his 20 years experience to …
Seminar recording: April 23rd If you weren’t able to make this inspiring talk with Jo Barker, landscape architect, passionate forest gardener and holder of the record for the greatest number of ingredients in a foraged salad, here’s a chance to see her once more. And here is a short film …
Seminar recording: April 30th A recording of the session here Daniel Scharf (MRTPI); Has recently written a ‘Supplementary Planning Document’ for Forest Gardening and will be describing the document and how to use it for advocacy Hannah Gardiner; Has recently undertaken a review of the evidence base of the benefits of Forest …
As part of the wide-ranging efforts many have undertaken to keep us all entertained/ learning and connected during this time of social distancing, the National Forest Gardening Scheme and its members have organised a 8 week series of FREE seminars covering a variety of topics related to forest gardening. We …
Today the National Forest Gardening Scheme published a letter on Access to our Forest Gardens in Public Spaces during the COVID-19 lockdown aimed in particular at local authorities. We believe that the useful jobs that can be carried out now in publically accessible forest gardens can be classified as ‘daily exercise’ if conducted …
We are ‘soft-launching’ this offer of a unique guild of plants, a forest garden starter-kit if you like, intended for a 3m x 3m space. It’s designed by a collaboration of our national forest gardening talent and comes with full planting, harvesting and cooking instructions and it’s available NOW at …
The Conference was a great success – a lot of enthusiasm – all our flyers were taken and we collected 21 email addresses. We connected with the charity Food Matters and will explore further collaboration with them. Food Matters facilitated a ‘big tent’ event for Worthing and Adur’s local food …
