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The Backyard Forest

Transform your backyard into a lush food forest, growing edible crops in a wildlife haven
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (29 ratings)
140 students
Created by Jake Rayson
Last updated 10/2020
English
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Forest gardening
  • Sustainable garden design
  • Growing perennial vegetables
  • Wildlife gardening
  • Creating a permaculture food forest

Requirements

  • An interest in plants, gardening and wildlife

Description

No matter the size of your garden, you can create a lush food forest using forest garden techniques. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to work with nature to grow edible crops, all the while creating a haven for wildlife.

The course is divided into 3 stages

  1. Watching, thinking and planning — where you observe, measure and document your garden to start the planning process, then on to craete the map to enable the design process.

  2. Structural planting — establish the windbreaks & protective structures, start a productive perennial veg bed and plant the canopy tree layer.

  3. Filling in the structure — prepare the ground so that you can plant the shrubs and the ground cover

Practical walkthroughs, demonstrating each of the stages, will be added regularly.

The full course outline is:

  1. Introducing

  2. Plan

  3. Design

  4. Protect

  5. Perennial Veg

  6. Canopy layer

  7. Ground Preparation

  8. Shrubs & Ground Cover

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to grow their own food and who are interested in sustainable gardening and wildlife.

Course content

8 sections • 42 lectures • 3h 50m total length

  • Preview03:29
  • Preview03:43
  • Preview04:15
  • Preview04:24
  • Preview04:02
  • Useful links
    00:42
  • Preview00:08

  • Intro
    02:38
  • Preview05:47
  • Observations
    12:58
  • Measure
    03:30
  • Wishlist
    05:56
  • Preview08:11
  • Preview06:14

  • Intro
    03:52
  • Philosophy
    02:22
  • Benefit
    03:51
  • Preview13:27
  • Example
    13:03

  • Intro
    01:37
  • Protection
    13:28
  • Design
    06:25
  • Establish
    02:45
  • Species
    10:18

  • Intro
    03:57
  • Accessibility
    06:14
  • Protection
    04:26
  • Top 10
    06:18

  • Intro
    02:24
  • Species
    12:52
  • Planning
    03:40
  • Planting
    06:25

  • Intro
    02:34
  • Paths
    03:01
  • Timing
    02:48
  • Mulch
    06:40

  • Intro
    02:12
  • Priniciples
    03:41
  • Propagation
    08:13
  • Planting
    02:50
  • Shrubs
    04:36
  • Ground cover
    10:31

Instructor

Jake Rayson
Forest gardener & forest garden designer
Jake Rayson
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 85 Reviews
  • 1,343 Students
  • 2 Courses

Jake moved to a farmhouse in West Wales UK in 2015 to pursue his vocation as a forest gardener. In a time of climate emergency, he passionately believes that a productive garden can be sustainable, wildlife-friendly *and* ornamental. He divides his time between forest garden design and teaching, the relentless planting of 3 acres of hillside and his relentless young family.

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