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Food For Thought: Videos

Forest Gardening Documentary

Ken Fern introduces a variety of rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses.

 

Three 15 minute Documentaries running back to back on Forest Gardening. Includes the full Ken Fern and 'The 'Field' documentary


1. Robert Hart's forest garden (PFAF took a trip to Robert's garden in the summer of 1996 more)
2. Ken Fern at 'The Field' in Cornwall (start 15:55)
3. Mike & Julia Guerra's small urban forest garden (start 32:15)

 

 

A forest garden in a tiny allotment!

 

 

 

Now available: 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, 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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FOOD FOREST PLANTS

 

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