Puttmyra Forest Garden - The Food Forest Tour 2023

Puttmyra Forest Garden (Puttmyra Skogsträdgården) is beautifully situated a few kilometers outside Stjärnsund in southern Dalarna (Hedemora municipality). The plant forest garden began in 2011 and plantations covering the current situation around 2 has. We grow over 200 species of trees, shrubs and creepers and around 150 herbaceous species of forest plants in the garden. The main purpose of Puttmyra Forest Garden is to explore forest gardening as a growing technology in the Swedish climate. We focus on finding suitable established techniques for starting positions and put a lot of effort into finding good plants for the northern forest gardens, we then spread further through our nursery operations. Putt Myra Forest Garden has become a popular destination (see below for more details) and we hold annually courses forest horticulture both here and elsewhere in the country.

Location parameters:
Altitude 136-145 m
Mean annual temperature 4,3°C
Annual precipitation 600 mm
Last night-frost 15 May - 1 June
First-night frost 1 - 15 September
Growing zone Sweden IV/V

🔗 Links
www.skogsträdågrden.stjärnsund.nu/puttmyra-skogstradgard/

Chapters:
00:00 Puttmyra
00:13 Forest Garden Greenhouse
02:20 Nursery and Greenhouse
03:01 Polyculture area with heat-loving plants
03:24 Open field
06:21 Ponds and irrigation
07:35 Forest edge

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🌳 The Food Forest Tour 2023
A small Finnish group embarked on a week-long study trip to Sweden to explore forest gardens. The group included experts and enthusiasts in the field. The route extended from central Sweden to southern Sweden.
The gardens we visited were all created from different perspectives, with great enthusiasm and love for engaging with nature as a common factor. Each destination also showcased Permaculture design. Altogether we visited 9 private Forest Gardens and three public parks with a Forest Garden.

💭 Why did we make this tour?
To see advanced Food Forests and Forest Gardens, gather knowledge on the subject, network with Swedish Forest Gardeners and share these special places by videos to enthusiasts.

🎯 Tour destinations:
01 Malmabergsparken med Matskogen - Vesterås
02 Puttmyra Skogsträdgården - Stjärnsund
03 Christina Schaffer och Per Klingbergs Skogsträdgård - Kopparberg
04 Gyttorpsskolan - Örebro
06 Eklunden Park - Örebro
07 Skogsträdgården Holma - Höör
08 Skogsträdgårdens Växter - Höör
09 Skoglundarna Hampus - Östaröd
10 Lilla Skräddaröd - Rörum Skåne
11 Anders Agroforestry - Rydeholm
12 Åfallet - Haddebo

👓 About the filming crew:
Juha Ujula teaches Horticulture, Agroforestry and Forest Gardening at LIVIA College in SW Finland. Specialized in introducing new edible & ornamental plants, he's worked at Mustila Arboretum and Botanical Garden of Turku. At the moment Juha and his partner, Laura are living a quiet life in the countryside, growing veggies, herbs, medicinals and edible nursery plants.

Visa Suonpää working in the field of art, combines a permacultural approach into his artistic practices. Best known as a member of artist duo IC-98.

Sari Nousiainen practices homesteading on her 5-hectare family farm. She has a Forest Garden and practices small-scale agroforestry. At the farm she manages an annual vegetable garden and greenhouse, sheep, ducks and bees together with her husband. Her occupation is webmaster and her hobby is video editing. Her own Youtube channel is @vahkajakkara.