<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book tells you everything you need to know to create your own forest garden with beautiful illustrations and helpful tips throughout.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Forest Gardening (or Agroforestry) is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. A forest garden imitates young natural woodland, with a wide range of crops grown in different vertical layers. 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 and beautiful, but also productive space. Whether a small area in your back garden or a larger plot, here is advice on how to create a forest garden with great environmental benefits: from planning and design (using permaculture principles) to planting and maintenance. With a changing climate, we must grow food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity and Forest Gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge.</p><p><i>Creating a Forest Garden</i> also includes 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A marvelous introduction to make us all rethink our entire relationship with the land." --Mary Montaut, <i>The Irish Beekeeper</i><br><br>"Martin is a true pioneer and his work deserves respect and celebration." --<i>Permaculture </i>magazine<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p>