Creating a Forest Garden, 9781900322621
Hardcover
Grow food sustainably: a guide to tranquil, edible forest gardens.

Creating a Forest Garden

working with nature to grow edible crops

$158.78

  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    12 April 2010

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Summary

Unlock Your Edible Paradise: A Guide to Creating a Forest Garden

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, weed…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781900322621
ISBN-10:1900322625
Author:Martin Crawford, Joanna Brown
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Green Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Edition:1st
Release Date:12 April 2010
Weight:1.79kg
Dimensions:275mm x 220mm
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Critics Review

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 *

About The Author

Martin Crawford

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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