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Anna Locke

The Forager's Garden

Anna Locke

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English
Permanent Publications
01 December 2023
Self-sufficiency; Organic gardening
This practical guide shows you how to create your own edible sanctuary, for year round food, in any sized garden, with minimal effort and care for Nature too. Go foraging at your own back door!

Anna Locke condenses years of her own hands-on experience as a garden designer to walk you through all the skills and techniques you need to design and plant a delicious, useful and thriving garden.

Whether it's a few plant pots on a patio, a small urban back yard, or a bigger garden or smallholding in the country, you will learn how to create a wildlife friendly space for minimal cost.

Our gardens can be part of a bigger, local food strategy that can be abundant, healthy and resilient. A forager's garden provides nutrient dense food through every season and requires minimal work to maintain. It helps give self-sufficiency to anyone with minimal time for gardening.

This book will give you: .

An overview of organic gardening techniques, great for the beginner .

A basic, accessible guide to designing your garden .

Insights into how to plant guilds and choose what is right for your space .

Valuable information on how 'weeds' can become harvests .

A choice of nutritious, seasonal plants for any sized plot .

Techniques to grow maximum food with minimal work and cost .

Practices that reconnect you with Nature and enhance wellbeing .

Money saving tips to make planting a forager's garden a must!

Anna's The Forager's Garden shows you one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to grow and harvest food while creating a beautiful and harmonious garden for wildlife and health.

AUTHOR: Brought up in cities all over the world, Anna s journey into a deep love of plants began with a degree in herbal medicine. She passed the RHS diploma in Horticulture in 2000 and became a community gardener around North London, teaching children and adults in schools, playcentres, community centres, housing estates and allotments. Anna has planted and designed many community and school gardens that focus on annual vegetable production as well as fruit trees, edible hedges, allotments and permaculture forest gardens. Anna lives in Hastings, designing, facilitating workshops and developing a small community permaculture farm.

Colour photographs throughout
By:  
Imprint:   Permanent Publications
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781856233071
ISBN 10:   1856233073
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Brought up in cities all over the world, Anna's journey into a deep love of plants began with a degree in herbal medicine. She passed the RHS diploma in Horticulture in 2000 and became a community gardener around North London, teaching children and adults in schools, play centres, community centres, housing estates and allotments. Anna has planted and designed many community and school gardens that focus on annual vegetable production as well as fruit trees, edible hedges, allotments and permaculture forest gardens. Anna lives in Hastings, designing, facilitating workshops and developing a small community farm.

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