Creating a Forest Garden
by Martin Crawford · first published 2010
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The long-awaited definitive book on forest gardening. Martin takes you step by step through the process of designing, implementing and maintaining a forest garden. Trees, shrubs, perennials, short-lived plants and fungi can all be integrated into one system and this book tells you how to do it. Includes descriptions of many uncommon edible plants suitable for temperate climates. If you want one book on forest gardening then this is the one to get! "A seminal piece of work on truly sustainable gardening, written with great spirit and soul" - Alys Fowler.
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…ecosystem up is sort of a lifetime-scale project, so we're mostly talking about rather un-controlled experiments running for decades. A more recent book I'm going through that I like is Martin Crawford's "Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops" In the section on soil fertility, you can find tables quantified in terms of pees per area, depending on the breakdown of what you already have planted. He…
on “Introduction to Permaculture (1994)” ↗…Something which may be of additional interest to you are Forest Gardens which seem to be pretty good at optimising a whole system https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/about-agroforestry/forest-gar.... The book "Creating a Forest Garden" by Martin Crawford is definitely worth checking out if only for the wealth of information regarding types of plants and their use.
on “Carbon Removal Technologies” ↗