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Edible Perennials: 50 Top perennials from Plants For A Future
Authored by Plants For A Future (2015)

Edible Perennials Book

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 Edible Perennial Book

 


List Price: $25 USD (approx £16 GBP and €23 Euro depending on local taxes etc).

8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Full Color on White paper
86 pages
ISBN/EAN13:
1516965345 / 9781516965342

BISAC: Gardening / Organic

Current interest in forest or woodland garden designs reflects an awareness that permanent mixed plantings are inherently more sustainable than annual monocultures. They safeguard and enrich soil ecosystems, enable plants to form cooperative combinations, make use of layers above and below the soil, and they create benign microclimates which soften winds and recycle the rain. The challenge is productivity: how can yields of useful foods and other useful materials be maximised? The latest book from Plants For A Future is a resource for discovering some of the answers.

Edible Perennials provides detailed information, attractively presented, on 50 selected perennial plants, based on practical experience and observation, plus a wide range of reputable sources. All these plants yield edible produce: roots, tubers, seeds, oils, fruits, stems, flowers, or leaves, and many have other useful properties, which are also described. For each entry the descriptive text is augmented by summary information panels covering various attributes such as natural habitat, cultivation needs, nutritional value of edible parts, and potential uses within woodland garden designs.

We have included some more unusual species that may not be well known to growers interested in trying out different food crops and new designs for their plots. The book also has a reference table of the key characteristics of nearly 400 other perennials, to help readers to identify plants that meet their particular requirements.


 

Edible Perennials Book

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Direct from PFAF.ORG Digital Edition: $12 USD (approximately £7.65 GBP and €10 Euros) 

 

 

 

Edible Perennial Plants Inside Book Cover

New Plant Icons to help you choose plants

Edible Plant Icons

Icons include edibility and medicinal rating

Icons for Oca

 

A plant matrix for all the plants included in the book with a summary of the key plant information to further aid is selecting and using the right plants. 400+ additional plants included for further choice.

Plant Matrix of Edible Plants

Simple quick reference layout

Edible perennial Book Layout

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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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