Tiny Forests - Nature in Urban Spaces

[@jgjz1585]

This is exactly what we need to make the wildlife prosper. Thanks for the video!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@curleex3838]

I wish more people would plant more trees! Im a keen uk bushcrafter and i have nothing but respect for our woodlands, when i lay near the camp fire at night looking up at the stars through the tree canopy i sometimes wonder how long it will be before our beautiful woodlands are a rarity!

[@WyeExplorer]

Brilliant project. There's such an array of positives to come out of it. I wish all tiny foresters and forests the best. Mark

[@maxfreeman3764]

My mum's house backs onto some old railways, the local council have decided to reforest this area. After a chat with our local councillors, mum managed to get them to plant over 100 fruit trees just outside of everyone's gate!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Great stuff 😁

[@kurtzwar729]

I planted over 400 plants (75 species) over my large lawn (5,000 sq ft) + alley 7 years ago. 24 Alaska cedars, 8 Shore pines, 2 Red cedars, 2 Douglas firs, 6 Vine maples, 6 Douglas maples, 2 Cascara trees, Red flowering currant - 15, Serviceberry 16, Black capped raspberries, trailing blackberries and lots more. I did NO soil preparation. I laid down 4-5" of medium/large size bark over the whole lawn after mowing. I removed grass and invasives. I have trees 22-24' tall now. The summer temp is 12-15 degrees F cooler in the forest. I only used native plants. Go for the trees first and foremost. I water during our dry summer until the forest roots have taken over. Mount Vernon, WA USA.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Great stuff. I bet it’s lovely to have your own little forest patch like that 😁

[@squatchburger1580]

This is a wonderful idea , all people need nature around them ,it is essential for wellbeing.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Very true 😊

[@EcoresolveInc]

Wishing you the best guys!

[@amerruru2443]

Thank you so much 🌻

[@jakegreek1]

Love the conservation content, would love to see more if you could do it

[@bristolveggiebeds5310]

Great addition to southmead! I hope they survive!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

I hope so too I’ll keep an eye on them haha 😊

[@anonymous-or3uk]

Wow this is a really good idea

[@d_vrdlovec8724]

ok I live in Bristol and would love to set up a whole bunch of these tiny forests in the city , this is great .

[@sustainablesouthmead9537]

Fab! Lets do it!

[@EzekielTaylorUK]

Just wanted to say thanks for your informative content, especially with species identification of the various flora, far better and visual explanation of what clues to look for, something that doesn't quite come across as well from text and pictures alone. Keep up the great work.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@juhonieminen4219]

Hi, I'm writing from Finland. I'm glad I found this video by accident while searching wild mushrooms. :) This sounds great activity for local people, but what nature really needs right now are corridors. Corridors of flower for bees and butterfy, and corridors of woodland for wild game. Nature is all about connection. Large forests should be connected by eight lane "highways" of wild nature. It would be the most beneficial investment for infrastructure of our future.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks. And yes I agree green corridors are very important

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

Great work!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@DaisyDebs]

Fantastic ! 💚🌳🌲🌳🌳⛈🌦🌞🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳💚

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

😁

[@zixaa]

that's super close to where I live! amazing! do you offer foraging trips near bristol at all? I imagine paid ones?

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

I don’t at the moment but hopefully soon 😁

[@juniper1982]

I’m from BC Canada and it’s odd to hear someone could grow up and never set foot in a forest...I guess I take the forest for granted. Forests are everywhere even in cities, but I still feel too many are being taken out

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Yeah I’ve been to BC it’s beautiful. We only have 2.5% of our ancient woodland left in England. It’s all farmland. So I’m very jealous of the woodlands in BC haha

[@juniper1982]

@@UKWILDCRAFTS That 2.5 percent is indeed special! Actually we only have something like that left of our ancient old growth forests as the logging industry is racing to tear it down. Many people in BC are fighting for it - It’s called the Fairy Creek movement 💚

[@geraldinegregory.1803]

Did I miss something about re planting the trees in a couple of years? That number of trees can't possibly grow in a small plot like that.....everything would die off within a few years. Please tell me that it's not expected to grow all those trees in situ until maturity!

[@sustainablesouthmead9537]

Hi Geraldine, the forest is made to replicate a natural situation, so yes, not all of the trees will survive, but enough will to provide a dense (albeit very tiny) forest. As I understand it the competition and the support the plants give each other encourage the rapid growth. After about 5 years the forest system should become self regulating.

[@ljgreene3999]

Please, if you can, follow up and revisit this site and others like it. There are dozens of videos of tiny forests being planted since 2020, but very little reporting on how they have fared. It would be instructive for people to see the 3 and 4 year old projects in full self-sustaining bloom. Isn't it curious that Miyawaki's method had been around for nearly 50 years before western ecologists took note (en masse during 2020 it seems)?

[@malekkahrba8959]

اهلا بيك 😂😂