This excerpt from my diary of activities is part of a CD-Rom, where all articles, photographs and interviews as well as design and conceptional work is presented. If you are interested in any of these, please feel to contact me.

Summer 1998

31/05/98 - End of the 72 - Hours - Design - Course

While attending the Design Course, I decided to continue my involvement with Permaculture and to do the Diploma. (Thanks again for the interesting and inspiring course!)

24 - 26/07/98  - Robert Hart's forest garden

Following the end of the design course, Alpai organized a couple of workdays at the forest garden at Margret MacMillan’s kindergarten. As suggested during the course, we decided to take a trip to visit Robert Hart and his forest garden. About 10 of us came along. Robert took us around his forest garden explaining the idea of a garden which works, like a forest,  as a stable and diverse system. In Robert's forest garden this is achieved by the staking of about seven layers of plants (high canopy; low and shade-tolerant trees; shrubs and bushes; herbs; horizontal creepers; root plants; vertical creepers) Almost all plants are perennial food plants to achieve a minimum of work and energy input into the system. Robert claims that he isn’t doing much more than harvesting and mulching. There was also a composting toilet and a willow patch for living mulch and basket making. Throughout the weekend, Robert and the group were followed around by a camera team, who were in the process of making a new film about Robert Hart's work. During the course of the weekend, they interviewed Robert extensively.  My guitar playing was recorded for the film. The film is now available in english and as a german translation under the title "The Forest Gardener"

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