AKG092 - Prickly Nut Woods

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Sweet chesnut
A prickly Sweet Chesnut seed pod

Join me for a visit to Prickly Nut Woods, where Ben Law built his woodland house (as seen on Grand Designs) and lives among the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) trees. You can see some of my photos in this Flickr set.

Ben has written three books about his life in Prickly Nut Woods – The Woodland Way (A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management), The Woodland House and the full-colour and very beautiful Woodland Year, all published by Permanent Publications and available via the Green Shopping Catalogue.

Also in this show I talk about the new AKG Seed Appeal to raise money to help Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank save wild plant species.

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My book – ‘The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A To Z‘ – is out now in the UK. Follow the link for reviews, interviews and more. You can order a copy online from the Green Shopping Catalogue or via Amazon UK – both of which will ship internationally.

Posted 22 October 2009, 13:56.  

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