{"product_id":"9781900322621","title":"Creating a Forest Garden : Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Crawford, Martin, Brown, Joanna\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHealth \u0026amp; personal development\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 13 April 2010 by Green Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 384 pages, full colour illus\u003cbr\u003e229 x 283 x 29 | 1780g\u003cp\u003eForest Gardening or Agroforestry is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. Modelled on young woodland, a wide range of crops is grown in 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. Whether a small area in your back garden or a larger plot, here is advice on how to create a beautiful space 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreating a Forest Garden 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as more familiar plants you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crawford, Martin, Brown, Joanna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465881948344,"sku":"9781900322621","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781900322621.jpg?v=1734728764","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781900322621","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}