The trustees of the Plants For A Future charity wish all the visitors and users of our website and database a Very Merry Christmas and a productive New Year. We expect that you will be producing more and more edible perennials, a practice that has really caught on lately. We saw evidence for this in […]
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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 is working with children and residents in her parish and also running a county-wide rewilding […]
The Food Forest Alternative
A food forest is a form of regenerative farming, a designed ecosystem modelled on nature, with the aim of growing food and sequestering carbon at the same time. As a forest it will consist of plants which occupy different layers, typically a canopy layer, shrub layer, herb layer and climbers. All plants will be perennials […]
Are you interested in a local/downloadable product or service of the PFAF database?
We would value your help in thinking about ways to share the PFAF database of 7,000 edible and useful plants. There are only a few questions in this survey and all are optional – but the more answers that we get, the better our understanding of our users’ needs will be. Please follow the link […]