We need help! We’ve spent lots of resources producing our latest book Food Forest Plants for Mediterranean Conditions and our new Native Plants Search facility. In the process more plants and searchable items have been added to our free to use database. But our income has dropped and we’ve been dipping into our reserves. for some time. So we’d really welcome more donations to stabilise our finances – please give what you can. More >>>
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Hardiness Scale How hardy is it on a scale from 1 - 10. One will survive arctic winters, ten is tropical. Cornwall is about eight, but can grow some plants from zone nine. Most of Britain is zone seven, going down to zone six in the north and four in the mountains.
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, including carbon sequestration, and the kinds of foods they yield. The book suggests that community and small-scale food forests can provide a real alternative to intensive industrialised agriculture, and help to combat the many inter-related environmental crises that threaten the very future of life on Earth.
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