This month’s chosen plant is a controversial one……I’ve chosen Blue Broom – Psoralea pinnata for three reasons! First the good then I shall get the controversial part if you haven’t picked it up yet 🙂 3. Hardy & Quick-Growing As the Edible Forest is only 6 years old from construction, blue broom has been a
This month I have chosen Angelica as edible plant of the month because it’s really beautiful at this time of year and has so many uses! Angelica also known as Ashitaba and the botanical name of Angelica archangelica is in the Apiaceae family. Also in this family is celery and I point this out as
The Edible Forest Nursery has been a new exciting addition to our forest for the past 18 months. Everything we sell is propagated on-site in our hothouse. Lots of preplanning and work goes into getting these plants out to the public and we do this as we recognized some of our plants are just not
Autumn and the Autumn Harvest is proving to be an interesting time in the garden this year. With the high levels of rainfall and low temperatures we saw throughout summer. The garden has been built using Hugelkultur methods therefore storing a lot of water and hardly drying out in some areas creating all sorts of
Within the Edible Forest we practice seed collection from both our vegetable patch and forest for several reasons. Seed collection helps us keep a diverse range of plants. We provide a lot of vegetables for our events kitchen. Being able to collect the seeds ensures costs are reduced and we can do succession planting which
Plant Sale – The sun is out, the soil is warming up and we have plenty of tomato and vegetable plants that are looking for there forever home. The Edible Forest plant nursery is open for you to visit Monday to Friday between 11am – 3pm and Saturdays between 1pm – 3pm. Order form is