Cultivating edible ecosystems: a practical approach – garden lecture 17 May 2025, Saturday with Sid Hill

In this garden lecture, Sid will discuss how to design, create and manage edible ecosystems. You will also learn how to sensitively tend the land and rediscover ways of introducing edible plants into your own gardens and landscapes.

Edible ecosystems have existed for thousands of years, created and managed by indigenous people growing food and other useful plants in forests and grasslands. Much of Sid’s work is inspired by these ancient practices and how we can bring some of this knowledge into our own gardens and landscapes in a practical way. His passion is to create landscapes and plantings that echo wild plant communities, meadows, woodlands and wetlands, whilst producing food, restoring environments and improving people’s lives.

The day will begin by exploring Sid’s work and approach in designing, creating and managing edible and biodiverse gardens.

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