Awards
- Short-listed for Garden Media Guild - Practical Book Finalist 2010 (UK)
- Short-listed for Garden Media Guild Book Award: Practical Book of the Year 2010
- Shortlisted for Garden Media Guild Book Award: Practical Book of the Year 2010.
Overview
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, mushrooms 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 drought. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Martin Crawford ,
Joanna Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Green Books
Edition: 1st
Dimensions:
Width: 22.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 27.50cm
Weight: 1.794kg
ISBN: 9781900322621
ISBN 10: 1900322625
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 13 April 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The ultimate book on the subject... extremely thorough and beautifully illustrated Let's Talk (East Anglia) This book is a magnificiently produced and massive tome that is sure to become every forest gardener's horticultural toolkit and bible. Grow It Marting has produced a book that is not only visually beautiful but very practical, offering advice on planning, designing, planting and general maintenance. Positive News - Summer 2010 If you are seriously considering the creation or maitenance of a forest garden then you would do well to have this book on your shelves. Even if you are only looking for novel ground cover suggestions in shaded areas or approaches to inter-planting trees, then this book offers bountiful food for thought. Green Prophet Creating a Forest Garden is a fascniating read for gardeners interested in how to plant communities that work. Gardens Illustrated Martin Crawford has produced a spectacularly useful guide to new horticultural and ecological terrain of great importance. Permaculture Activist 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. WWOOF Ireland Martin's book is visually stunning with beautiful photography and illustrations, accompanying very informative and well constructed text. Self Sufficient-ish Website - 11 June 2010 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 - June 2011
'Even if you weren't going to try forest gardening, I challenge you not to want to by the end of this book. This is a seminal piece of work on truly sustainable gardening, written with great spirit and soul' Alys Fowler, author and presenter, The Edible Garden. 'Martin Crawford has spent 15 years creating what is almost certainly the best forest garden in the temperate world... and the breadth of his knowledge matches the depth of his experience. I've been looking forward to this book ever since I heard he was writing it' Patrick Whitefield, author, Permaculture in a Nutshell and The Earth Care Manual.
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 * 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 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 * Visually stunning with beautiful photography and illustrations, accompanying very informative and well constructed text. * Self Sufficient-ish Website * 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 * A magnificiently produced tome that is sure to become every forest gardener's horticultural toolkit and bible. * Grow It! * The ultimate book on the subject... extremely thorough and beautifully illustrated. * Let's Talk (East Anglia) * 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 *
This book is a magnificiently produced and massive tome that is sure to become every forest gardener's horticultural toolkit and bible. Grow It Marting has produced a book that is not only visually beautiful but very practical, offering advice on planning, designing, planting and general maintenance. Positive News - Summer 2010 If you are seriously considering the creation or maitenance of a forest garden then you would do well to have this book on your shelves. Even if you are only looking for novel ground cover suggestions in shaded areas or approaches to inter-planting trees, then this book offers bountiful food for thought. Green Prophet Creating a Forest Garden is a fascniating read for gardeners interested in how to plant communities that work. Gardens Illustrated Martin Crawford has produced a spectacularly useful guide to new horticulutral and ecological terrain of great importance. Permaculture Activist 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. WWOOF Ireland Martin's book is visually stunning with beautiful photography and illustrations, accompanying very informative and well constructed text. Self Sufficient-ish Website - 11 June 2010 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 - June 2011
Author Information
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.
