Shrubs for Gardens, Agroforestry and Permaculture

Martin Crawford

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Permanent Publications
01 November 2023

Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Gardening: shrubs & trees; Organic gardening

A range of useful shrubs for different niches, sites, and functions--in gardens and on homesteads and farms.

World-renowned expert Martin Crawford covers common fruit bushes like currants and gooseberries, and includes many other less-known shrubs with edible fruits, nuts, leaves, or other parts. He takes us on a journey into the world of exotic spice trees, shrubs with medicinal parts, and plants that fix nitrogen to help fertilise other plants. All these can be grown in temperate climates, diversifying our diets, enabling us to design beautiful, productive gardens, as well as showing us how we can integrate agroforestry into our smallholdings and farms to create new income streams. Despite increasingly urgent calls from scientists, the not-fit-for-purpose economic and political systems we live in cannot be relied upon to implement the carbon emission reductions needed. This is where we come into it: whether we are farmer, gardener or plant dabbler, by planting shrubby plants that sequester carbon, we can minimise our carbon footprint and ideally live a carbon-negative life. On a broadscale, perennial and woody species are the way forward to reduce carbon emissions in agriculture. Woody crops sequester carbon in their biomass, but can also be grown in systems that allow for sequestration of large amounts of carbon into the soil.

AUTHOR: After several years working in organic agriculture and horticulture, Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992. Since then he has focused on researching and growing perennial food systems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees and uncommon fruits. He runs the nursery at ART which propagates and sells many different tree and perennial plants and is the author of Creating a Forest Garden; Trees for Gardens, Orchards, and Permaculture; and other books on ecological gardening.

Full colour photographs throughout

By: Martin Crawford
Imprint: Permanent Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 222mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1.016kg
ISBN: 9781856233330
ISBN 10: 1856233332
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

After several years working in organic agriculture and horticulture, Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992. Since then he has focused on researching and growing perennial food systems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees and uncommon fruits. He runs the nursery at ART which propagates and sells many different tree and perennial plants and is the author of Creating a Forest Garden; Trees for Gardens, Orchards, and Permaculture; and other books on ecological gardening.

Reviews for Shrubs for Gardens, Agroforestry and Permaculture

""Martin Crawford has spent years meticulously researching plants for gardens and farms. He is both visionary and utterly practical, an invaluable combination."" -Permaculture Magazine