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=**Forest Gardening : Cultivating an Edible Landscape**= =Description= //"An English classic revised and expanded for North America//, //Forest Gardening is a way of working alongside nature--an approach that results in great productivity with minimal maintenance, and a method for transforming even a small cottage garden into a diverse and inviting habitat for songbirds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Based on the model of a natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables.// //Hart's book beautifully describes his decades of experience gardening in the Shropshire countryside, yet the principles of 'backyard permaculture' he explores can be applied equally well in other locales across the planet, from tropical to temperate zones.// //Robert Hart blends history, philosophy, anthropology, and seasonal gardening wisdom in a lucid sequence of essays, which together comprise a remarkable testament to the pleasures of "hands-off" as well as hands-on gardening. Forest Gardening is truly a book for our times, offering a fresh sensibility that will encourage and inspire ecological gardeners throughout the world."// (from [|Amazon]) Keywords : agricultural agroforestry American animals apple arboretum areas aromatic Barbe Baker basic beans beautiful berries Bill Mollison biogas black currants Bouldon Britain bushes cereals companion planting comprises contains coppice countries crops cultivated delicious desert developed diet disease eaten ecological edible energy environment farm fertility fibers flavor flowers forest garden fruit trees fuel gooseberry green grow grown H. J. Massingham Hardy to Zone herbs and perennial Highwood Hill human Indians industrial insects Japanese Kerala land landscape layer leaves leguminous living medicinal minerals Mollison mulch native needs Nursery nut trees orchard organic pear perennial vegetables Permaculture pests pine plants plums protein rain forest raspberries Ripens roots salads seeds self-sufficiency Shropshire shrub soil solar South Shropshire species supply sweet timber tion traditional tropical varieties village vitamin weeds Wenlock Edge wide diversity wild winged bean winter wood (from [|Googlebooks])
 * By Robert Hart - 234 pages - 1996** **Back To Books** [[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YdHxFchOL._SS500_.jpg width="350" height="350" align="right"]] download for free from **?? ([|preview])**

=Content= Practical features of the book include:
 * An explanation of how plants in different levels or "stories" --from ground covers to full-sized trees--coexist and interact in a healthy and productive landscape.
 * Design guidelines for creating your own perennial, food-producing garden
 * Lists of recommended plants and varieties, keyed to different climates

Table of Contents

 * 1) Towards a Forest Economy
 * 2) Unity and Diversity
 * 3) Health and Wholeness
 * 4) Personal Pilgrimage
 * 5) The Wenlock Edge Project
 * 6) Plant Life: Its Infinite Potentialities
 * 7) Design and Maintenance
 * 8) Water and No Water
 * 9) Stored Up Sunshine: Energy Yesterday and Tomorrow
 * 10) The Thinking Hand: Skills of the Craftsman
 * 11) Agroforestry Against World Want
 * 12) Green is Real
 * 13) Where Do We Go From Here?

=See Also=
 * 1) [|Quotes from Forest Gardening, by Ecobooks]