The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape

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‘Build resilience and create a low maintenance edible haven with this accessible guide.’ Kim Stoddart

Learn how to create an edible forest garden from canopy to groundcover, modelled after nature – perfect for gardeners and growers at any scale!

In The Home-Scale Forest Garden, gardener Dani Baker provides a practical, in-depth guide to creating a beautiful, bountiful edible landscape at any scale – from creating a foundation planting to developing an edible hedge to planning an acre or more.

Discover how to create a resilient forest garden ecosystem, including:

Observing and mapping your spaceGrouping fruit trees, berry bushes, and perennial vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers in diverse layers that attract and shelter beneficial insects and birdsCreating microclimates to increase the range of plants you can growExpending less energy for greater reward

Along with over 200 photographs taken over 10 years of forest garden development, you’ll find illustrated designs of plant groupings for a range of conditions, including hot, dry sites and shady, moist sites. This book is the perfect guide for gardeners of all experience levels who want to embark on their own forest garden adventure.

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Includes over 200 colour photographs and garden layout illustrations!

The Home-Scale Forest Garden is the perfect guide for gardeners of all experience levels who want to work with nature’s model and expand the range of food crops they grow as they embark on their own forest garden adventure. The book includes over 200 photographs and garden layout illustrations for special plant groupings for a range of conditions, including hot, dry sites and shady, moist sites.

In this plant grouping, shade-tolerant ground cover, herbaceous, woody, and vining plants form a dense array under two black locusts. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

This is a section of the Curving Hedgerow, featuring plants that can tolerate some shade. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

A self-sustaining grouping for a shady hügelkultur mound. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

The layout of my highbush cranberry bed in a sunny, wet site. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

In this plant grouping, shade-tolerant ground cover, herbaceous, woody, and vining plants form a dense array under two black locusts. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

This is a section of the Curving Hedgerow, featuring plants that can tolerate some shade. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

A self-sustaining grouping for a shady hügelkultur mound. Illustration by Zoe Chan.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing Co (18 Aug. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645020983
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645020981
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 3.18 x 25.4 cm