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: #202072 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.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful source
a treasure of information for those interested in exploring new kinds edible landscaping. I cant really add to the review previously, other than the fact the book is mostly geared to the British gardener. Americans like me will need to do a bit of research about the climate and environment of UK.

This is not really a bad thing, but it would be nice to include a little more about the author's climate with a zone map

Invaluable information on creating natural gardens
Plants For A Future: Edible & Useful Plants For A Healthier World offers invaluable information on creating natural gardens, woodlands, and farms that are in harmony with nature's ecosystems, and contain a wide variety of easily grown perennials and self-seeding annuals that are delicious and healthy food stocks for human consumption. Complete descriptions are provided for edible and other useful plants which are native to both Britain and Europe, and from temperate areas around the world (including the United States). These are edible plants suitable for an ornamental garden, lawns, shady areas, ponds, walls, hedges, agroforestry, and conservation projects. Author Ken Fern shares his experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees. Enhanced with b/w and color photography, Plants For A Future is an enthusiastically recommended, "reader friendly", compendium of information, personal anecdotes, and enriched for the gardener and horticulturalist with detailed appendices and indexes.