Creating a Forest Garden – Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops

Creating a Forest Garden – Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops by Martin Crawford

A forest garden is a garden modeled on the structure of young natural woodland, utilizing plants of direct and indirect benefit to people – often edible plants. It may contain large trees, small trees, shrubs, herbaceous peren­nials, annuals, root crops and climbers, all planted in such a way as to maximize positive interactions and minimize negative interactions, with fertility maintained largely or wholly by the plants themselves.

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