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How to Make a Forest Garden Paperback – 1 October 2012

by PATRICK WHITEFIELD (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
Edition: 3rd
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A step-by-step guide to creating a 'maximum output for minimum labour' food producing garden, designed using the ecological principles of a natural woodland. Highly practical and inspiring, How To Make A Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden, including: . Basic principles . Layout . How to choose plants . Details of over one hundred plants, from apples to mushrooms . A comprehensive account of perennial and self-seeding vegetables . A step-by-step guide to creating your garden . Full details of an example garden, with pictures of many more A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large rural garden. A close copy of a natural ecosystem, it is perhaps the most ecologically friendly way of gardening open to us, as well as being a low-maintenance option. Once established there is none of the digging, sowing, planting out and hoeing of the conventional kitchen garden. The main task is picking up the produce! AUTHOR: Patrick Whitefield (11th February 1949 – 27th February 2015) was an early pioneer of permaculture, adapting Bill Mollison's teachings with a strong Southern Hemisphere bias to a cooler, maritime climate such as the British Isles. He wrote a number of seminal books, Permaculture in a Nutshell (1993), How to Make a Forest Garden (1996), a new edition of Tipi Living (2000), The Living Landscape (2009), How To Read the Landscape (2014) and his magnum opus, The Earth Care Manual (2004), an authoritative resource on practical, tested, cool temperate permaculture. 25 b/w line drawings and 70 diagrams
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  1. ISBN-10
    1856230082
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1856230087
  3. Edition
    3rd
  4. Publisher
    Permanent Publications
  5. Publication date
    1 October 2012
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    20.4 x 1.3 x 28 cm
  8. Print length
    176 pages
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Patrick Whitefield's excellent book gives numerous practical details of the steps that many of us can take to realise this alluring vision. Robert Hart, author of Forest Gardening

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Patrick Whitefield was a British permaculture teacher, designer, and author. He was an influential British exponent of the permaculture movement since 1990, and appeared in several television programmes, including the BBCs Its Not Easy Being Green (2006) and A Farm for the Future (2008). Patrick grew up on a smallholding in Somerset and qualified in agriculture at Shuttleworth College in Bedfordshire. He experienced farming in Britain, the Middle East and Africa, and was involved in organic gardening, nature conservation, country crafts and green politics.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Permanent Publications; 3rd edition (1 October 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1856230082
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1856230087
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.4 x 1.3 x 28 cm
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  • Accessible Earth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tout pour commencer son propre jardin forestier
    Reviewed in France on 17 July 2019
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    Plein d'information... me sera très utile.
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  • Strawberry_Toast
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book! Gives a lot of information
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 July 2014
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    Excellent book! Gives a lot of information for planning purposes, including diagrams and things I wouldn't have considered. Goes WAY beyond simply choosing plants that work together to include the uses of walls, manners of pruning (or not pruning) trees, and how a forest garden will morph over time as larger plants mature. As someone fairly new to gardening looking for a more technical book this was perfect.
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  • debhenri
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very concise and informative read, essential for the budding forest gardener
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2015
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    This is a fantastic book. Just what I was looking for. Don't be concerned about the black & white photos. Like many colour photos in other books, they are a mere guide. Besides, it's the info you want, and here it's priceless.
    I have just started to plant up my own forest garden on 2 acres of land, with almost no money left to spare. So the right advice for the best plants (which I grow entirely from seeds, cuttings, or by grafting, or through swapping with friends) is absolutely crucial.
    I have no room for making any economic mistakes here!
    Mr Whitefield encourages you to make the most of what nature has to offer in order to create your no-dig or restricted-dig forest garden, approaching the matter of mulches, weeds and pests in a sensible way. (So nice to see a keen gardener who understands that not everyone has access to 'Gardener's World' type TV budgets).
    There is advice on so many other aspects of 'healthier, greener' methods of growing food and materials (such as for basketry) it is almost impossible to list them all without writing down a good part of the book. There is careful consideration given to how best to plant the forest so that it gains the maximum levels of light for better growth, water usage & collecting, pruning.
    Even though my own embryonic-forest is only just starting to produce the odd berry and mushroom (and that's despite the fact that it still looks little more than a rather weedy field), through this book I have come to see that there are even more ways of raising foods & materials that will not compromise the balance of nature. Indeed, your mind begins to run riot and you start to see even more ways that the book doesn't include, so it is idea-inspiring too.
    As I have just started to introduce fungi species, with the intention of growing many more types of edible and symbiotic fungi, I was happy to see a couple of lengthy paragraphs have been included on this newly appreciated yet essential side to successful gardening. However, perhaps, in later editions, there could be a little more emphasis on this subject? Or perhaps another book?
    You don't need a big garden either. That point comes across very clearly. You can begin to raise your own mini-forest in a very small space indeed, and I'm not just talking about the pocket-handkerchief gardens that are squeezed in behind modern developments. Even a productive container or kitchen windowsill is given mention here. Having lived previously in a place with a 10 x 4 foot deeply-shaded concrete yard, I know it is possible to grow a reasonable amount of food in such places, with the added benefit that you know exactly 'how' that food was grown!
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  • Flemming Andersen
    5.0 out of 5 stars How to Make a Forest Garden, 3rd Edition
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 December 2013
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    As we are in the middle of establishing our own permaculture forest garden, this book just hits the spot. An excellent introduction to temperate permaculture and implementing it in a forest garden
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  • Jojo P
    5.0 out of 5 stars How to Make a Forest Garden
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2009
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    What a fabulous book. Everything I wanted and more. Patrick gives so much information for the beginner or experienced gardener. Forest gardening is a 3 layered technique to provided maximum yield of food production all year round. This is something we should all be looking to do over the next few years as our global supplies of oil run out. By 2013 there will be no more oil - world wide - and as our whole existence at present relies totally on its production we will be facing the biggest challenge yet in producing enough food to survive. Forest gardening is possibly the only way for each individual and/or community to sustain year round supplies of food to prevent starvation. I kid you not. Buy it - read it - DO IT - NOW - whilst there is still a little time.
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