Forest Gardening Workshop

Part of the Harvest Moon Society’s Prairie Culture series of workshops.

Forest gardening is an ancient horticultural technique practiced worldwide for creating abundant, resilient gardens patterned after natural forest ecologies.

This two-day workshop will explore key concepts and strategies in forest gardening such as Permaculture principles, species selection, sheet mulching, patterning, swales, succession planning, polycultures, guild creation and the design process. We’ll also install a food forest on a section of the experimental 3-acre Harvest Moon Permaculture site.

Workshop poster

Find out how forest ecosystems manage essential tasks such as fertilizing, pest control, soil building, pollination and a host of others without any inputs. By designing our yards, gardens or farmsteads to imitate forest ecologies it is possible to cultivate forest gardens full of nourishing foods, medicinal plants, fuel, fodder, habitat, beauty and inspiration. By carefully selecting and placing productive species such as fruit and nut trees, edible and medicinal perennials, self-seeding annuals, fodder crops, mushrooms and more we can turn our forest gardens into self-managing systems which will provide many years of stable yields with little, if any, inputs from the gardener.

When: September 15-16, 2011
Where: Harvest Moon Learning Centre, Clearwater, Manitoba
Instructor: Carissa deJong
Cost: $75 for the two-day workshop, includes meals
Camping space available.

5 Comments to “Forest Gardening Workshop”

1. Tyson Kadikoff says:

   July 29, 2011 at 9:37 pm

   Hi there!

   I’m interested in the forest gardening workshop and was wondering how I could sign up. I’m from Winnipeg and somewhat of a new gardener in practice. Looking to gain some experience and new tricks wherever I can, and this course sounds great for that!

   Thanks,

   Tyson

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2. Sheri says:

   August 8, 2011 at 2:44 pm

   Is this workshop on Sept 15-16 or on a weekend?

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3. Colin Anderson says:

   August 8, 2011 at 2:50 pm

   This workshop is on a Thursday, Friday. Not on the weekend. The Harvest Moon Festival is on the weekend (16, 17, 18) and we are hoping that this provides folks with a good reason to take some time before the weekend to take in the workshop. For those that can’t make it, please email us and we can put you on the waiting list for a future forest gardening workshop.

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4. Sheri says:

   August 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm

   Put me on the list, Colin! Gotta work during the week Thanks!

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5. Sandra Martens says:

   September 7, 2011 at 7:59 am

   I would love to take this workshop. Please put me on the waiting list for the next one. Thanks!

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