We ran food forest tours and lunches over the weekend at the Overtuin forest garden.

Jord and Birk run local eatery Restaurant Rotonde. They cook with local products and visit the Overtuin Food Forest - a 10min cycle from their restaurant - to harvest ramson leaves.

The recent storms have caused serious damage to trees in the Overtuin.

Harvesting and cooking from the garden on a winter's day.

Pulling out brambles in the organic food forest.

Constructing wildlife hotels to support urban biodiversity.

A winter walk around the organic food forest.

Wild garlic (or Ramsons) shoots are sprouting in the garden. This is a sign of the steady movement from Winter into Spring. And it is a sign that we will soon be harvesting our first forest crop of the year!

We cleared around the gooseberries and red currants and placed wood chips around them. This will develop soil health around the plants while preventing grass from growing.

Planting 18 speciality trees with a group from Commonland.

Laying a path so that visitors can see the wetland plants growing in the "oeverzoom" .

Friday working with the Vruchtbarde Bodem group. We woodchipped, weeded and Patty and Varuna researched and then taught the group about water plants.

We always need a good supply of wood chips in the forest garden. And with this wet summer, it's important to put a wood chip layer down along the paths. This way visitors can navigate the wilder parts of the garden without getting too muddy.

Making a takenril to surround the tree nursery. The takenril acts as a fence but also habitat for frogs, toads and hedgehogs.

Budding apricots and almonds in the nursery

Working with volunteers to clear around plants and observe the summer growth.

Peaches and plums ripening up at the food forest.

Clearing around the gooseberries

Making a compost fence around the tree nursery with Steevy. We found a lot of life in the process, including this toad. We hope the toads and frogs will make a home in the fence and keep away the slugs!

Planting out cuttings in the nursery. We made cuttings in the spring of varieties of grapes, red currants and black currants.

The Green Trainees of Coöperatie Ondergrond organised and hosted a Food Forest Festival over two days at the Overtuin Food Forest.

Various wild strawberries grow in a shadowed patch.

Evening sunshine on the canopy of the Mother Oak.

A cross road in the overtuin.

Trompenburg gardeners Cor and Wilko cleaned up this area for us.

A food forest tour to the Groenetrainees