Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World

Ken Fern (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2007 | 2nd Revised edition
Permanent Publications (Verlag)
978-1-85623-011-7 (ISBN)

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The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves and our planet: we need to create gardens, woodlands and farms which are in harmony with nature. Though all natural ecosystems provide excellent examples to follow, Plants For a Future specifically focuses on edible species, suggesting a wide variety of easily grown perennials and self-seeding annuals which produce delicious and healthy food. Describing edible and other useful plants, both native to Britain and Europe, and from other temperate areas around the world, Plants For a Future includes those suitable for: the ornamental garden, the lawn, shady areas, ponds, walls, hedges, agroforestry and conservation. It offers alternative methods of growing these plants in ways that are in harmony with the local environment and can help to improve the overall health of the planet. In his thoroughly useful book, Ken Fern shares his experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees. Packed with information, personal anecdotes and detailed appendices and indexes, this pioneering book takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.

Ken Fern has always been a plant enthusiast. Over the years he has experimented with, and compiled information on, a huge number of useful, unusual plants. With an increasing concern for the state of agriculture and the health of our planet, Ken decided to downshift from his job as a bus driver for London Transport in the early 1990s and move to Cornwall to establish the pioneering charity, Plants For A Future. With the help of Kens vast experience and encyclopaedic knowledge, Plants For A Future have now been trialling over 2,000 unusual species which are edible or have other uses, with a further 7,000 compiled on their database.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.1.2013
Zusatzinfo	colour and b&w photographs
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
ISBN-10	1-85623-011-2 / 1856230112
ISBN-13	978-1-85623-011-7 / 9781856230117
Zustand	Neuware