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Students get ready for ‘Go Green Week’ at the Newton Rigg campus In an English forest garden...
Students at the Newton Rigg campus spent time in February investigating innovative ways of combating major global issues such as carbon emissions, deforestation, food miles and chemical additives by exploring the creation of ‘forest gardens’.
As part of People & Planet’s ‘Go Green Week’, the students organised a string of events to explore, among other things, how to grow a range of food within a forest setting.
Forest gardens have a long history, particularly in tropical countries, and are now of increasing interest in temperate regions of deciduous forest. A forest is the most productive of land ecosystems and the aim of a forest garden is to integrate woodland ecosystems and plant ecology with a touch of human ingenuity to create a highly productive way of growing food, medicine, herbs and other plants.
‘Go Green Week’ kicked off on Monday 7 February with an all-day open meeting of Cumbria Forest Food Network, featuring talks
and workshops by Andy Goldring, Head of the Permaculture Association (PA) and Tomas Remiarz, Research Leader for the PA.
The week of associated events was brought to a close on Saturday 12 February with a cob oven demonstration, green woodworking and further investigation of forest gardening.
If you would like to find out how you can get involved in creating and developing your own forest garden, please contact Naomi van der Velden for more information at
naomi.vandervelden@
cumbria.ac.uk
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