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A food forest in your garden : plan it, grow it, cook it / Alan Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextCopyright date: ©2021Description: viii, 284 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1856232999
  • 9781856232999
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB454.3.E35 C37 2021
Contents:
Part 1. Techniques for a forest garden -- 1. Understanding forest gardens -- 2. Designing your forest garden -- 3. Creating your forest garden -- 4. Managing for forest garden -- 5. Eating from the forest garden -- Part 2. A directory of forest garden plants -- 6. Introduction to the crops -- 7. Forest garden trees -- 8. Shrubs, canes, large herbaceous perennials and climbers -- 9. Crops for forest shade -- 10. Forest edge crops -- 11. Sun-loving crops -- 12. Fungi.
Summary: "Grow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, wildlife-friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot, from a small terrace garden to an allotment or smallholding, that provides nutrient-dense and often unusual food through every season, and requires minimal work to maintain."--Page 4 of cover.
List(s) this item appears in: Permaculture
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves S494.5.P47 C27 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800193385
Total holds: 0

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.

Part 1. Techniques for a forest garden -- 1. Understanding forest gardens -- 2. Designing your forest garden -- 3. Creating your forest garden -- 4. Managing for forest garden -- 5. Eating from the forest garden -- Part 2. A directory of forest garden plants -- 6. Introduction to the crops -- 7. Forest garden trees -- 8. Shrubs, canes, large herbaceous perennials and climbers -- 9. Crops for forest shade -- 10. Forest edge crops -- 11. Sun-loving crops -- 12. Fungi.

"Grow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, wildlife-friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot, from a small terrace garden to an allotment or smallholding, that provides nutrient-dense and often unusual food through every season, and requires minimal work to maintain."--Page 4 of cover.

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