I want to share a garden. A garden that mimics natural plant communities, including a diverse range of useful plants and sown with a flower rich meadow. Often new permaculture gardens are created using bark, woodchip and organic mulches. This is great for the gardener as it reduces maintenance and gives many other benefits. However, it is not great for wildlife, without dense vegetation there is very little habitat and feed for wildlife. Gardeners are rarely able to create a

Responding to the contemporary horticultural issue of food security and diversity The human population is rapidly expanding, with fewer people growing food and more living in urban environments. Our food system is being put under significant pressure, which is pushing agriculture to extreme intensification. Resulting in degraded environments, food with a poor nutritional quality and pollution at a global scale (United Nations 2014, Badami & Ramankutty 2015, Lovell 2010 & Acke