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Dear loomio friends, because NFGS is now a membership organisation we are now making membership official. Two reasons: members have a constitutional right to influence how we develop NFGS; second we need to stay viable. For example as of today we have 143 days left of free use of loomio. Please could you download and complete the membership form (see thread NFGS Official docs) and make a donation through the donate button top right on the membership front page.

DU

Wed 18 Dec 2019 8:49AM

Dear loomio colleagues all, we are reaching an important juncture in our development as an organisation. We are all committed to the spread of forest gardening, and to the recognition of forest gardening as a vital skill for all our futures. However, this does means taking the time of our skilled and busy (and often underpaid) forest gardeners to promote this work. It also requires a great deal of volunteer effort on behalf of our planners, designers, academic researchers and our volunteer Board to raise the profile of forest gardening so it can be seen and supported as the core of a local community's food system, conceptually as well as practically. And thus support the swelling tide of support for agroecology and agroforestry.

To keep on at this we do need funding to supplement the wonderful volunteer efforts that so many are putting in. We need help with finding grants and writing the bids to win them. We also need income from membership. Our latest tally of signed up members is 20. If this is a sign of something that those of us leading are not hearing, please speak up. You'll likely be speaking on behalf of everyone. We have to be honest with ourselves if something isn't working. If people just haven't got round to signing up, that's completely understandable. If so, could I urge you to sign up today and make a donation?

Our profile is rising: we've been asked to exhibit at the Oxford Real Farming Conference; we will go to print shortly on printing planting and harvesting guides for our Forest Gardens in a Box; there is great interest in an academic trial to investigate the progress of the guild behind it; and we are planning to hire a bigger space for our AGM in 2020. And we will have to start paying to support this forum. Please decide today whether you would like to sign up and support - or to say what would it really take for you to want to belong to and get behind this movement. Sincere thanks.

LB

Lyla Byrne Mon 9 Dec 2019 9:54AM

Greetings. I'm helping to set up a small C.I.C. here in far West Penwith CWLL. - to be able to get enough support to continue developing a 2.3 acre forest garden (also as part of promoting permaculture). WE hope to have a successful application within your loomio time limit and will then join as an organisation. We are financially poor at present, but will make a small donation.

Will also post a little description of our project. THANKS, Lyla

DU

Sun 8 Dec 2019 4:50PM

SB

sarah benjamins Fri 3 Jan 2020 3:21PM

Hi Jane! It’s been a while - yes I’d love to visit on the 19th, are details somewhere on here? Is it Birchfields?

JLM

Jane Lesley Morris Thu 2 Jan 2020 7:20AM

Welcome Sarah! I hope you visit our Forest Garden soon (eg on Sunday 19th?) I look forward to your responses to our discussions on how Forest Gardens can improve nutrition, food security/sovereignty & more people's access to a plant-based “planetary health diet". It's almost a year since the Lancet reported that this could build climate resilience and safeguard the Earth. Best wishes to all for the new decade!

SB

sarah benjamins Mon 30 Dec 2019 9:44PM

Thank you, I have just joined! Excited to see where this goes :-)

DU

Wed 27 Nov 2019 7:23PM

Dear members and yet to be members! Here is the online membership form with a direct link to PayPal within the document - now fully working. Many thanks go to @Nick Turner for all his support.

Click on the PayPal link once you've answered the few short questions and make your donation. Nick has also restored the 'donate' button to the website - to be used for all donations for all other purposes beyond membership. A request. Please all those of you who think you may have already donated, would you check your accounts? It could be the money hasn't been taken due to an incomplete PayPal address. Our bank balance has remained the same since the AGM in September! Many thanks.

VS

Verena Scrimshire Thu 5 Dec 2019 11:40AM

Thanks, Paul. Just done.

DU

Thu 28 Nov 2019 7:13PM

Verena please sign up here: online membership form

DU

Sat 23 Nov 2019 10:52AM

Sorry about this. We are attempting to fix.

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