Tokachi millennium forest

Tokachi Millennium Forest was established on the idea of carbon offset, an environmental conservation activity. It offers opportunities for people to have contact with nature by means of forest, gardens, farming and art. Its Earth Garden and Meadow Garden, designed by a British garden designer Dan Pearson, won the Grand Award and the International Award of the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2012. The judges praised them as more beautiful than any other entry submitted, extraordinarily…

SANS CULTURE BITE | Tokachi Millennium Forest.

The Dutch landscape designer on his new book and an essential but often overlooked ingredient in gardening—chance

Watch the Video: https://vimeo.com/60263584Photographer: SYOGO OIZUMIThe 240 hectare Tokachi Millennium Forest is the brainchild of the entrepreneur Mitsushige…

For a decade, Dan Pearson has been working on the Millennium Forest Garden in Hokkaido. And it's not finished yet…

A review of a book about this ambitious ecological park in Japan by Dan Pearson with Midori Shintani

Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening with Nature

We have been visiting the Tokachi Millennium Forest in Hokkaido this last week. It was my annual visit to meet with Midori Shintani, the head gardener, to gauge the past year’s developments and help move the garden gently forward. Gardens are never static and the elemental nature of the surrounding forest and the backdrop of […]