Dan's passion for tropical plants, growing food and understanding the value of land was born from the many trips he made to the jungles of Borneo and remote islands such as Vanuatu.
Realising that it was not sustainable to keep traveling to these remote places, he found a new way to continue his passion by creating his very own Rainforest here in the UK, he mimicked the forest layers and used evergreen and hardy tropical plants to replicate the feel of the Jungle ... and later learnt that the methods he followed instinctively we're exactly the same as the layering system taught and used in Permaculture, when designing a Food Forest.
In this video Dan share more on the creation of this tropical evergreen paradise.
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest - Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible, where we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-70% self sufficient in our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
In our videos you can follow our journey as we share our experiences and what we get up to at Freedom Forest.
We are MASSIVELY grateful that you choose to watch our Videos and support us in this way, however, If you appreciate and get value from what we share and would like to help us a little more, you can become a Freedom Forest Patreon (link below). In return your name will appear in the end credits of our videos and we'll message you a password for the 'members area' of our website where we share a few more of our favourite recipes exclusively for our Patreon's 💚
www.patreon.com/freedomforestlife
Enjoy & Thanks for Watching
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