Product Description

The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves and our planet. We need to create gardens, woodlands and farms which are in harmony with nature. Natural ecosystems are good models, but many of the plants they contain are not edible. So we need to discover a wide variety of easily grown perennials and self-seeding annuals which provide delicious and healthy food.
Describing edible and other useful plants, both native to Britain and Europe and from temperate areas around the world, this book includes those suitable for: the ornamental garden, the lawn, shady areas, ponds, walls, hedges, agroforestry and conservation.
In this thoroughly useful book, Ken Fern shares his experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees. Packed with information, personal anecdote and detailed appendices and indexes, this pioneering book takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #431455 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Organic Gardening, Oct 1997
....a valuable list of easily grown plants....useful as well as being good for the environment.

Herbs, V22, No3, 1997
....encourages us to bring more diversity into our gardens and diets. Buy one for yourself and one for a friend....

Habitat, V33, No8, 1997
Packed with information....this book adds a further dimension to gardening, conservation and ecology.