Forest gardening is a way of working with nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but also has fantastic environmental benefits.
You don't need a forest for forest gardening. Based on the model of a healthy natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables in vertical layers. They rarely require any weeding, digging or pest control and as plants are chosen for their beneficial effects on one another, they form their own sustainable ecosystems, offering great environmental benefits.
Written by forest gardening pioneer, Robert Hart, this comprehensive guide to forest gardening describes its principles and practice, including guidelines on how to design and maintain a forest garden, and lists of recommended species for temperate, tropical and sub-tropical climates. It also shows potential value of forest gardening for countering environmental devastation.
Hart's book beautifully describes his decades of experience gardening in the Shropshire countryside, and offers fresh ways of understanding the relationships between people and growing plants. Blending history, philosophy, anthropology, and seasoned gardening wisdom in a lucid sequence of essays, Forest Gardening examines the pleasure of 'hands off' as well as hands-on gardening.
For gardeners who aspire to create ecological as well as beautiful gardens, Forest Gardening will be an inspiration and a pleasure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DEDICATION PAGE
- FOREWORD
- Prologue: THE MINI-FOREST
- Chapter One: TOWARDS A FOREST ECONOMY
- Chapter Two: UNITY AND DIVERSITY
- Chapter Three: HEALTH AND WHOLENESS
- Chapter Four: PERSONAL PILGRIMAGE
- Chapter Five: THE WENLOCK EDGE PROJECT
- Chapter Six: PLANT-LIFE: ITS INFINITE POTENTIALITIES
- Chapter Seven: DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE
- Chapter Eight: WATER AND NO WATER
- Chapter Nine: STORED UP SUNSHINE: ENERGY YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
- Chapter Ten: THE THINKING HAND: SKILLS OF THE CRAFTSMAN
- Chapter Eleven: AGROFORESTRY AGAINST WORLD WANT
- Chapter Twelve: GREEN IS REAL
- Chapter Thirteen: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- EPILOGUE: A NEW TWIST IN THE EVOLUTIONARY SPIRAL
- APPENDIX ONE
- APPENDIX TWO
- REFERENCES
- SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
- RECOMMENDED SUPPLIERS IN THE UK
- MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATIONS
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
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