Plants For a Future: Edible & Useful Plants for a Healthier Planet

Retail price: $29.95
Our price: $20.95 (30%) (C$32)
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 6.5 "x9.25", 300 pages
ISBN: 1-85623-011-2
Book Details: 24-pages of color photos, plus black & white photos, appendices, index, & more

By Ken Fern

The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves and our planet. We need to create gardens, woodlands, and farms which are in harmony with nature. Natural ecosystems are good models, but many of the plants they contain are not edible. So we need to discover a wide variety of easily grown perennials and self-seeding annuals which provide delicious and healthy food.

Describing edible and other useful plants, both native to Britain and Europe and from temperate areas around the world, this book includes those suitable for: the ornamental garden, the lawn, shady areas, ponds, walls, hedges, agroforestry and conservation.

In this thoroughly useful book, Ken Fern shares his experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Packed with information, personal anecdotes, and detailed appendices and indexes, this pioneering book takes gardening, conservation, and ecology into a new dimension.

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