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The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves and our planet. There is therefore a 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 necessarily edible. What we need is to discover and grow a wide variety of easily grown perennial and self-seeding annuals which provide delicious and healthy food, or are useful in other ways.

Describing plants such as these, both native to Britain and Europe and from temperate areas around the world, this book includes those suitable for: the ornamental garden, the edible lawn, shade, 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, Plants for a Future: Edible & Useful Plants for a Healthier World takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.

Content

1. The Practice: Some of the basic ideas of ecological gardening.
2. Trees and Shrubs: A wide range on common and more unusual trees and shrubs which form the basis of a woodland garden. Many of these have edible uses.
3. Woodland Plants: Climbing plants, bulbs and herbaceous perennials to grow in a woodland or other shady situation.
4. The Flower Garden: Ornamental herbaceous perennials and their uses.
5. Perennial Vegetable and Herbs: Productive herbaceous perennials.
6. The Pond and Bog Garden: The many useful plants that can be grown in a pond or bog garden.
7. The Edible Lawn: How to grow a more colourful lawn whilst reducing your workload and getting some food.
8. Walls and Fences: Plants that grow in them as well as against them.
9. Hedges, Screens and Shelterbelts: Useful plants that can give privacy, and shelter from the wind.
10. Ground Cover: How to reduce weeding in the garden and also get extra food.
11. A Few Annuals and Biennials: The less well known annual vegetable.
12. The Wild or Conservation Garden: How to provide habitats for our native flora and fauna, whilst still producing food for ourselves.
13. Further Possibilities: A look at some plants which look exciting but of which we do not yet have experience.

Plants For A Future is a resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. We practise vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment based largely on perennial plants.

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