I’d always dreamed of one day buying some waste land and reforesting it, but it never occurred to me that an ordinary suburban garden could not only be transformed into a natural habitat for wildlife, but could become part of a global refforestation movement.
The I saw Shubhendu Sharma’s TED talk on Tiny Forests, which planted further seeds of inspiration!
His ideas are based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who developed an afforestation technique that involves planting a diverse mix of native tree species closely together to create dense, multi-layered forests that grow rapidly.
The ‘seed’ that remained in my mind was that you could plant a tiny forest in a space as small as one square meter!
So in addition to making the garden more habitable for wildlife, it now became possible to allocate a part of the garden to become a tiny forest.
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