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The Food Forest Handbook by Darrell Frey and Michelle Czolba

The Food Forest Handbook by Darrell Frey and Michelle Czolba

Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden

A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests can help increase biodiversity, protect valuable habitat for beneficial insects, and promote food security and resilience, all while providing an abundant harvest.

The Food Forest Handbook is a practical manual for the design and management of a home-scale perennial polyculture garden. Simple, straightforward instructions guide the reader through:

  • Getting started — site assessment and planning
  • Tending the forest garden — maintaining soil health, succession planning, mulching, pruning and more
  • The fruits of your labor — crop profiles, harvest, storage, nutrition and recipes.

This timely book makes the concept of food forests accessible to everyone. Focusing on the potential of perennial polyculture to enhance local food systems, The Food Forest Handbook shows the reader how to mix and match plants in unique combinations to establish bountiful landscapes and create genuine self-reliance in years to come.


Publisher: New Society Publishers
Pub. Date: 2017-04-17
ISBN: 9780865718128
Format: Paperback - 256 pages

Orchard Supply Pick-Up and Shipping

Pick-Up:

Orchard supplies can be picked up at the nursery anytime during store hours.

If you have placed an order for orchard supplies when we do not have general hours or would like to pick-up outside of regular hours, call or email us and we are happy to arrange something with you.

Shipping:

Orchard supplies can be shipped all over Canada and, upon request, to the US. Unlike bareroot plants, we ship orchard supplies anytime of the year.

If the shipping fees do not seem accurate at checkout, let us know and we can double check the estimate for you.

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