Sustainably grown foods from the edge of Broadwater Forest

What is grown in and around our Forest Garden?

Canopy Fruits

Apples, Pears, Plums, Gages, Cherries,  Damsons, Walnuts, Hazel nuts, Filberts, Quince and Medlar.

Other Canopy trees

Strawberry Tree, Siberian pea tree, Italian Alder

Climbers

Grapes, Hops. Kiwi

Shrub Layer ( understorey)

Raspberries, Blueberries, Loganberries, Blackcurrants, Redcurrants, Gooseberries, Chokeberries, Honeyberries, Sloes and Elderberries.

Ground layer

Comfrey, Lungwort, Lemon Balm, Sages, Thyme, Good King Henry, Welsh Onion, Nasturtium, Mint and Sedum

The forest garden is also home to our flock of Khaki Campbell ducks. They are given a small supplementary feed but they are happy foraging for slugs and snails and other invertebrates within the garden. They are our slug pellets! Their droppings help to maintain the fertility of the garden and they lay a good number of eggs per day.

Around the periphery of the garden we rear other livestock, namely chickens, pigs and turkeys.