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Our latest book PLANTS FOR YOUR FOOD FOREST: 500 PLANTS FOR TEMPERATE FOOD FORESTS AND PERMACULTURE GARDENS is now available from the Plants For A Future shop for $9 USD (approximately £6.50 GBP and €8 Euros). Please visit or…
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‘Plants to Save the Planet’: Supporting New Food Forest Projects
Since we began our 2019-20 Project ‘Plants to Save the Planet’, Plants For A Future has been particularly interested in making links with people embarking on food forest projects, and finding ways to help them. In 2021 we published our…
Food Forests: Rewilding with Useful Plants
Twice recently I have sent complimentary copies of our new book Plants for Your Food Forest to people involved in rewilding schemes. One of them is a student developing a computer system for helping people rewild their gardens, the other…
Our New Book. Plants for Your Food Forest
Plants for Your Food Forest: 500 Plants for Temperate Food Forests and Permaculture Gardens. An important new book from PFAF. It focuses on the attributes of plants suitable for food forests, what each can contribute to a food forest ecosystem,…
Trees or Technology?
‘Trees or Technology?’ by David Gearing You may be thinking that the widespread introduction of Food Forests and Carbon Sequestration in plants and soils are clearly necessary and desirable, but will take too long to make a difference, and that…
Plants to Save the Planet: the Biomass Argument
Biomass in gigatons of carbon (GtC) is a measure of abundance in the biosphere. Perhaps it is no surprise that the most abundant taxonomic group is plants at 450 GtC, but I was surprised to learn that all animals…
Edible Perennials in a Home Garden
Chris Marsh and David Gearing have been associated with the Plants For A Future (PFAF) charity for 14 years, Chris as Managing Trustee and Treasurer, with David providing vital support. They have both been involved with permaculture since 1990 and…
‘Plants to Save the Planet’ – Plants For A Future’s 2019-20 Project
The main role of (PFAF) for over 10 years has been to provide freely available non-commercial access to our database of over 8000 useful plants, for food, medicines and other uses. PFAF is very dependent on a flow of many…
Plants to Save the Planet
In his book Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, Edward O. Wilson argues that the solution to the present planetary crisis is to dedicate half the surface of the Earth to wild nature.[1] The other half Earth would be used…
New Book: EDIBLE SHRUBS: 70+ Top Shrubs from Plants For A Future
Increasing interest in food forests or woodland gardens reflects a growing awareness that permanent mixed plantings are inherently more sustainable than annual monocultures. They can safeguard and enrich soil ecosystems, enable plants to form mutually beneficial combinations, utilise layers both…