Caroline Aitken

Sep 21, 2023 | permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Caroline Aitken |Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty

Imagine transforming your garden, allotment, even your patio, into a multilayered edible wildlife haven! Garden designer, author and forest gardener, Pippa Chapman, chats to Permaculture magazine’s Maddy Harland, exploring how she starts designing and implementing perennial food gardens. Observation is key to all designing, and a base map is also vital in creating the best design for your space.

Aug 8, 2023 | permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Caroline Aitken |Liz Zorab

Imagine a garden that is not only full of beautiful trees and shrubs, it is also a place of healing where the gardener grows medicinal herbs, plants, woody shrubs and trees. Dr Anne Stobart describes how she became a medicinal herbalist, taught professional herbal medicine at university level and now grows and makes her own herbal medicines. She explains how her partner and herself have transformed a small conifer plantation into a medicinal forest garden.

Jul 12, 2023 | permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Caroline Aitken |Sarah Alexis Furey

Winter is a challenging time when it comes to food growing, so why not take advantage of what nature provides for free?

May 3, 2023 | permaculture.co.uk | Caroline Aitken |Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Sarah Alexis Furey

When we get down to the low-growing crops below the trees and shrubs, the degree of shade becomes all-important. This is the most diverse layer of the forest garden, so I’ll divide the plants according to their shade requirements. This chapter deals with the crops that can tolerate shade for most of the day. Some of these are true woodland species that do best in the shade.

Apr 26, 2023 | permaculture.co.uk | Caroline Aitken |Sarah Alexis Furey |Anne Stobart |Glennie Kindred

Sweet bay (Laurus nobilis) is an evergreen tree with glossy green spicy leaves and berries, used for supporting digestion since classical times and effective against respiratory infections. Alternate names Bay tree, common bay Parts used: Berries and leaves Sweet bay is a small to medium evergreen tree slowly growing to 10m tall (up to 20m in warmer climates) by 10m wide. It has dark green leathery leaves with pointed tips and a spicy aroma.