Rewilding vs Forest Gardening (and other questions answered)

Start them off in whatever you consider to be the right place and they find their own way to where they're happiest. For example, you can use bamboo canes and labels to mark spots in the garden, visualizing how big everything might grow, where it might potentially like to spread, and stick a cane in the ground where you think approximately is best. As you learn about their needs and tendencies, move the canes accordingly. You have to consider many factors like plant needs, tendencies, moisture, light, and growing companions.

"Creating a Forest Garden" by Martin Crawford is a comprehensive resource that plays a significant role in planning a forest garden. Also, internet forums, permaculture magazines, and hands-on experience in established forest gardens can provide excellent insights.

By allowing nature to play its role and creating an ecosystem that feeds both plants and wildlife. This includes planting hedging to establish perimeters, planting trees, fruiting shrubs, windbreak bushes, and working on perennial vegetables, wildflowers, vines, the aquatic and wetland areas, and a subterranean fungal layer.

Rewilding is a process where an area of land is worked on to bring it back to a wild state that fully incorporates within the local environment and supports local wildlife. In contrast, a food forest or forest garden is more planned with the primary purpose of producing food for human consumption while also supporting wildlife.

For plastic waste, items like toothpaste tubes, cellophane, and bubble wrap are turned into eco-bricks used for community building projects. Vegetable peelings go to compost, and for toilet waste, a dry toilet is used where the waste mixed with wood shavings or ash is composted for years before turning to soil. Urine is kept separate for use elsewhere in the garden.

Shampoo is made from the plant Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), which is mashed up, mixed with boiling water, and a dash of apple cider vinegar. It's a mild and natural alternative that can also be used for washing smaller clothes.

For small clothing items, a homemade soap solution is used, while a backup generator powers a vacuum cleaner and larger laundry items are taken to another location. A mixture of on-site solar power with backup generators fulfills energy needs for other appliances.