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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.


Birch mushroom logs
Birch mushroom logs are just one of the many food crops from Prickly Nut Wood

In March 2011 the UK government commissioned an Independent Panel on Forestry to help determine what their future forestry policy should be. The panel’s first public consultancy period is coming to an end – you can submit your thoughts about the future of England’s forests to them via their website or via 38 Degrees, until the 31st July 2011.

In this show I offer one possible future for England’s forests. I mention Kew’s coppiced woodland at Wakehurst Place and CAT’s Coed Gwern woodland. If you’d like to know more about Ben Law’s Prickly Nut Woods then have a listen to episode 92.

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