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…
Early Progress with Food Forest Project in Bialowieza
In January 2022, we (PFAF) announced our Food Forest Fund (FFF), which we have made available to award grants to help new food forest projects get started. In recent years PFAF has been focused on extending our free information database to include plants suitable for forest…
‘Plants to Save the Planet’: Supporting New Food Forest Projects
Since we began our 2019-20 Project ‘Plants to Save the Planet’, Plants For A Future has been particularly interested in making links with people embarking on food forest projects, and finding ways to help them. In 2021 we published our…