Maes Gwyn Visit
On 19 June 2024 David and Chris visited the food forest project at Maes Gwyn Farm in North Wales. It was a delightfully warm day and we enjoyed being shown around the site to see the progress Dan and Cherise…
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The Harmony Garden Food Forest, Cheshunt
October 2021 to January 2024 by David Gearing The Harmony Garden is a 500 sq m site surrounded by rows of houses and flats in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The project is facilitated by Wenderlynn and Iain Bagnall of Wyld Edges CIC,…
Bridge Farm Forest Garden, Bristol – update
In August 2022 we awarded the Bridge Farm Forest Garden a grant towards the costs of the next stage they had identified: preparation of a detailed site plan, more weed elimination and control, constructing a pond and a small shelter,…
Tree of Life Veganics: A new Food Forest project supported by the PFAF Food Forest Fund
By David Gearing, April 2023 Tree of Life Veganics in East Kent is a well-established enterprise with strong ethical principles, run by Jo Kidd and her partner Terry. Their objective is to create an off-grid vegan organic, biodiverse, climate resilient,…
Maes Gwyn: A North Wales Food Forest project
by David Gearing, April 2023 Maes Gwyn is a 3.5 acre smallholding in North Wales owned by Dan and Cherise Hunt. It is situated just outside the Snowdonia National Park at an elevation of around 600ft, on the edge of…
Bridge Farm Community, Bristol: Food Forest project
Progress Report by David Gearing, November 2022 Chris Marsh (PFAF Managing Trustee) and I first met Ana from Bridge Farm in May 2022 when Chris gave a talk on PFAF, including an introduction to our recently launched Food Forest Fund,…
Food Forest Project in Bialowieza: An Update
In January 2022 we (PFAF) announced our Food Forest Fund (FFF), which is designed to award small grants to help new food forest projects get started, or move on to a new stage. In recent years PFAF has been focused…
Saskatoon Serviceberry | Amelanchier alnifolia
The Amelanchier genus consists of small deciduous trees or large shrubs with small blackcurrant-sized fruit. Several species are excellent to eat raw, tasting like a blueberry with a hint of almond or apple flavour from the seeds. The fruit ripens…
Hyssop | Hyssopus officinalis
Hyssop is a small evergreen shrub in the mint family growing to 0.6m (2ft) and native to Southern Europe and the Middle East. Is Hyssop Edible? The leaves, young shoot tips and flowers have an intensely aromatic flavour, somewhat like…
Akebia | Akebia species
Akebia species are vigorous twining, semi-evergreen climbing shrubs with edible fruit available in autumn. Chocolate Vine (A. quinata), growing to 12m (40ft) or more, twines into trees and shrubs. It is very amenable to trimming in early spring. The root…