Food Forest: Designing and Planting a Forest Garden of Fruit, Nuts, Perennial Vegetables and Herbs for Low-Maintenance Harvests

Walk along the edge of an old wood in late summer and there is food at every height: hazelnuts overhead, blackberries at shoulder height, wild strawberries hiding in the grass. Nobody planted it, nobody weeds it, and nobody has ever fed it. A forest garden asks a simple question. Could you build something like that on purpose, with plants you actually want to eat?

This book shows you how, from a back garden a few metres across to a plot of a hectare or more. It explains how a forest garde...