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The food forest handbook : design and manage a home-scale perennial polyculture garden / by Darrell Frey & Michelle Czolba.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781550926224
  • 1550926225
  • 9781771422116
  • 1771422114
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Food forest handbook.:; Print version:: Food forest handbook.DDC classification:
  • 631.5/8 23
LOC classification:
  • S494.5.P47 F74 2017eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll11
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Perennial Polycultures: Past, Present, and Future -- 2. Food Forest Design and Planning -- 3 Food Forest Design: From Concept Sketch to Detailed Designs -- 4 A Food Forest Feast: Selecting Plants for Your Food Forest -- 5 Tending and Growing a Forest Garden -- 6 Propagating Your Food Forest Garden -- 7. A Tour of Food Forests in Various Climates -- Appendix : Compost Remediation for Lead Contamination.
Summary: "The Food Forest Handbook is a comprehensive guide to creating abundance though low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production based on perennial polyculture management. By incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines and perennial herbs and vegetables into a small-scale integrated permaculture landscape, gardeners can increase biodiversity, protect valuable habitat for beneficial insects, and promote food security and resilience."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"The Food Forest Handbook is a comprehensive guide to creating abundance though low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production based on perennial polyculture management. By incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines and perennial herbs and vegetables into a small-scale integrated permaculture landscape, gardeners can increase biodiversity, protect valuable habitat for beneficial insects, and promote food security and resilience."-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- 1. Perennial Polycultures: Past, Present, and Future -- 2. Food Forest Design and Planning -- 3 Food Forest Design: From Concept Sketch to Detailed Designs -- 4 A Food Forest Feast: Selecting Plants for Your Food Forest -- 5 Tending and Growing a Forest Garden -- 6 Propagating Your Food Forest Garden -- 7. A Tour of Food Forests in Various Climates -- Appendix : Compost Remediation for Lead Contamination.

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