This is the text on the board next to the forest garden bed:
Forest Gardens are a way of working with the natural world to create beautiful productive gardens.
They are designed to contain many layers of useful species. Larger and smaller trees (often fruit and nuts), shrubs (often fruit bushes), vines, perennial plants (often edible), pollinator friendly plants, ground covering plants and habitat boosters such as bird, bat and hedgehog boxes, log piles etc.
Forest Gardens create a healthy, diverse, productive and resilient community.
Forest Gardens are very 3D. They are great for wildlife and carbon capture as they hold a lot more life per square metre than an ordinary garden.
Forest Gardens mimic the species rich, natural, woodland edge habitat.
Forest Gardens aim to be self-sustaining ecosystems. Plants which can fix nitrogen from the air are incorporated as are companion plants, ground covers, plants good for natural pest enemies and dynamic accumulators (plants which are good at absorbing minerals from the soil which are then incorporated into their leaves and returned to the surface as these die back. Forest Gardens require less input and work.
Transition Cambridge aims to help Cambridge make the transition to ways of life that are more resilient in the face of rising energy prices and a changing climate.