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Edible Shoots: Find and Use Edible Plant Shoots

A new glossary search term called ‘shoots’ was created when we recently added additional tropical plants to the Plants For A Future database. The new glossary item, which is marked on the Plant Pages under Edible Uses, allows you to…

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  • Edible Perennials, Edible Shrubs, Edible Trees, Edible Weeds, Plants

‘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…

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  • Food Forest Fund, Forest Gardening, Uncategorized

The Future is in Edible Perennials

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…

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  • Plants, Uncategorized

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…

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  • Forest Gardening, Uncategorized

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,…

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  • Uncategorized

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,…

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  • Books, Edible Perennials, Edible Shrubs, Edible Trees, Forest Gardening

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…

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  • Carbon Farming, Forest Gardening, Plants to Save the Planet

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…

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  • Carbon Farming, Forest Gardening

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…

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  • Edible Perennials, Visits

‘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…

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  • Carbon Farming, Forest Gardening, Projects
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