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Creating a Forest Garden

Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops

Author: Martin Crawford and Joanna Brown  

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This book tells you everything you need to know to create your own forest garden with beautiful illustrations and helpful tips throughout.

Tells the reader everything they need to know to create a forest garden.

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This book tells you everything you need to know to create your own forest garden with beautiful illustrations and helpful tips throughout.

Tells the reader everything they need to know to create a forest garden.

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Description

Filled with helpful tips and beautiful photographs, this guide contains everything you need to create your own forest garden.Forest Gardening, or agroforestry, is a way of growing edible crops while allowing nature to do most of the work. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility, with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. The result of this largely perennial planting is a tranquil, beautiful and productive space, where you can cultivate your own fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushroom and even forage firewood and honey.Whether in a small back garden or in a larger plot, forest gardens really benefit the environment and are also a viable solution to the challenge of a changing climate. The soil thrives from being covered with plants all year round and is also able to store more water after heavy rains, minimising flooding and erosion and helping plants to survive through draught. Forest gardens also store carbon dioxide in the soil and in the woody biomass of the trees and shrubs. The mixed variety of plants further boosts the health of the ecosystem by ensuring a balance of predators and beneficial insects.Creating a Forest Garden is a bible for permaculture and forest gardening, with practical advice on how to create a forest garden, from planning and design to planting and maintenance. It includes a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers. As well as more familiar plants such as fig and apple trees, blackcurrants and rosemary shrubs, you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants.Grow a forest garden with this handy guide and become more self-sufficient while also enjoying the natural beauty and environmental benefits of these wonderful green spaces.

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Awards

Short-listed for Garden Media Guild - Practical Book Finalist 2010 (UK)

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Critic Reviews

“"This semina piece of work is not only visually entralling, it's incredibly easy to use and it contains a level of detail and explanation that makes it, I believe, a must read for anyone who is serious about building a truly sustainable forest."”

This is a seminal piece of work on truly sustainable gardening, written with great spirit and soul. Alys Fowler, TV presenter and author of The Edible Garden
The ultimate book on the subject… extremely thorough and beautifully illustrated. Let's Talk (East Anglia)
A magnificiently produced tome that is sure to become every forest gardener's horticultural toolkit and bible. Grow It!
Martin has produced a book that is not only visually beautiful but very practical, offering advice on planning, designing, planting and general maintenance. Positive News
Visually stunning with beautiful photography and illustrations, accompanying very informative and well constructed text. Self Sufficient-ish Website
This book offers bountiful food for thought. If you are considering the creation or maintenance of a forest garden, then you would do well to have this book on your shelves. Green Prophet
This book is a must if you are interested in producing food from your garden, becoming more self-sufficient or just curious about plants and their uses. The Cottage Gardener
This seminal piece of work is not only visually enthralling, it's incredibly easy to use. It contains a level of detail and explanation that makes it a must read for anyone who is serious about building a truly sustainable forest. WWOOF Ireland

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About the Author

Martin Crawford has worked in organic agriculture and horticulture for many years. He is director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a charity that researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

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More on this Book

Forest gardening is a novel way of growing edible crops - with nature doing most of the work for you. A forest garden is modelled on young natural woodland, with a wide range of crops grown in different vertical layers. Unlike in a conventional garden, there is little need for digging, weeding or pest control. Species are carefully chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility. Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know, whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual. As well as more familiar plants you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants - while creating a beautiful space that has great environmental benefits. In the light of our changing climate it is important that we find new ways of growing food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity. Forest gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Green Books
Published
13th April 2010
Edition
1st
Pages
384
ISBN
9781900322621

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