BEHIND THE URBAN WILDLING
Inspiration & Beyond
Fifteen years ago I took some time out from my corporate job and did a permaculture course, got back into acting and singing and decided I didn't ever want to ''work'' five days a week again.
Ten years ago I moved to Sussex, finally pregnant with a much anticipated baby daughter (after two devastating miscarriages and fears I would never become a mother) and inherited a bog standard lawn and flowerbeds in a suburban estate by the sea with primarily spring flowering non-native shrubs and bulbs.
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Over the past ten years the garden has been my playground for experimenting with different habitats, rewilding wit more native species, adding fruit tress, wood stores, a wildlife pond and a herb garden that I use for making delicious lotions, potions, teas, infusions and salves.
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The newts, frogs, fish, foxes, squirrels, badger, hedgehogs and more than 20 species of birds seem very happy with my work. My neighbours have taken more convincing that suburban garden with piles of logs for hugelculture and a lawn full of clovers and dandelions is such a good thing.
INSPIRATION
Lucky to be in Sussex
I feel really lukcy to be in Sussex, where there is so much innovation in permaculture and regenerative agriculture in the vineyards, farmyards, forests and fields. Here are some of the most inspirational projects which I hope will inspire you too.
HEXA
Knepp Estate
Giles Hutchins
British Vineyard
Seagull with kelp
Sussex river
Strawberry picking
Butterfly
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