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About the book
How
to Make a Forest Garden
by Patrick
Whitefield
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Customer Reviews
Very
Informative,
December 26,
2004
If you are
into
permaculture,
agroforestry,
or bored
with row
crop
gardening,
this book is
for you.
Peter is
from Britain
but, his
book is very
useful for
the
temparate US.
Peter
discusses
planting
trees,
shrubs and
an herb
layer all in
your garden,
mimmicking
the layers
of a forest.
There's lots
of good info
on cultivars,
including
some lesser
known fruits
and veggies.
This book is
much more
practical
and
informative
than Robert
Hart's book
Forest
Gardening.
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people found
the
following
review
helpful:
perennial
paradise,
June 21,
2000
In many
climates
around the
world,
forest is
the natural
state of
vegetation.
It grows
without
anyone's say-so.
It takes no
human effort
at all for
nature to be
sustainable,
diverse,
productive,
multi-dimensional,
and
beautiful.
However,
most
people's
gardens,
even food
gardens, are
really none
of these,
despite
large
amounts of
effort on
the part of
the
gardeners.
So what
would it be
like to
garden in
tune with
nature, to
grow a
forest
garden, with
many of the
features of
a natural
forest, and
little of
the labour
usually
involved in
gardening?
Robert Hart
pioneered
this
approach to
growing food
sustainably,
based on his
long
experience
of agro-forestry
around the
world. He
applied his
wisdom to
his backyard
and wrote
about it in
the classics,
'Forest
Gardening'
and 'Beyond
the Forest
Garden'.
However,
much of what
Hart wrote
was general
and
philosophical
- explaining
the 'why'
perhaps more
than the
'how'.
Patrick
Whitefield
has produced
this
intensely
practical
guide to the
'how' of
forest
gardening,
starting
from first
principles
and
including
all manner
of precise
details.
Whitefield
is an
experienced
permaculture
practicioner
and teacher,
and he
rightly
places the
forest
garden in
context as a
very useful
component of
a larger
system of
sustainable
living. On
the strength
of this book
I am in the
process of
transforming
my standard
suburban
plot into a
beautiful
forest
garden, with
apples,
pears,
cherries,
raspberries,
loganberries,
figs,
redcurrants,
perennial
herbs and
salads. It
has proved
to be an
invaluable
and much
thumbed
manual, and
an
inspirational
work. It is
directly
applicable
to temperate
climates,
and will be
of use to
those living
elsewhere
too.
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Product Details:
ISBN: 1856230082
Format: Paperback, 168 pp
Pub. Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Rodale
Institute
price: $16.50
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