Food Forest Garden
Trees and food forests gardens hold transformative power. They anchor carbon, purify the air, and cool the planet. These living ecosystems inspire resilience, fostering connection and interdependence. By cultivating and cherishing them, we nourish the Earth, sowing seeds of hope for a sustainable future.
Regardless of our limited spaces, we can nurture them in window boxes, on balconies, allotments, or in back gardens. With herbs, greens, fruit trees, and clever use of vertical space, we cultivate interconnected ecosystems that nurture both nature and our collective well-being.
My Brave New Girl podcast guest this week Pippa Chapman is the author ‘A plant lovers backyard forest garden’ and she shows us how bring to the magic of the forest garden into our own spaces, and how we can do it using the foundations of permaculture- people care, earth care and fair share.
GROW YOUR OWN
The future of food security lies in the planting of food forests at any scale in any space we have.
Pippa Chapman is a gardener, designer, forest gardener, horticultural consultant, permaculturalist and author of ‘A plant lovers backyard forest garden’.
Trained with the Royal horticultural Society & time as Head gardener of a large private estate she now works organically & regeneratively to enable wildlife to thrive alongside people.
Pippa is also a Permaculture practitioner & teacher working with the foundations of earth care, people care and fair share.
She shares how we can bring the ideas of forest gardening into our own gardens and allotments to help encourage biodiversity, perennial edibles and a more fertile soil.
In this way Pippa helps us develop a more organic, sustainable and regenerative approach to our gardens for the benefit of people, the planet and the future.
You can find out more about Pippa’s work on https://www.thoseplantpeople.com/ and follow her on Instagram @PippaChapman