A Time-Honoured Way to Harvest the Fruits of the Forest

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Most gardening takes a lot of patience, but establishing a forest garden has to be one of the most time-consuming of all outdoor projects.

Martin Crawford began creating his forest garden more than 15 years ago on the Dartington Hall Estate, near Totnes. It is a place of experimentation and demonstration, but also imagination and vision.

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A Time-Honoured Way to Harvest the Fruits of the Forest

"Most forest gardens are there to provide food and other materials for a household, they're not usually commercial.

This garden was also inspired by my interest in working with a more sustainable way of growing food," he explains on a tour around the garden.

Forest gardens are, perhaps, badly named. The ...

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