Martin CrawfordCreating a Forest Garden
Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Martin Crawford has worked in organic agriculture and horticulture for more than 25 years. His experiences span from working for the Yarner Trust in North Devon, teaching small-scale organic agriculture to restoring the walled gardens of a manor house to running an organic market garden and tree nursery in South Devon. Martin is director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a charity that researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. He runs a commercial tree nursery specialising in unusual trees and shrubs, and has an 8-acre trial site, researching fruit and nut trees.
Foreword by Rob Hopkins Introduction Part 1: How forest gardens work 1.
Forest gardens 2. Forest garden features and products 3. The effects of
climate change 4. Natives and exotics 5. Emulating forest conditions 6.
Fertility in forest gardens Part 2: Designing your forest garden 7. Ground
preparation and planting 8. Growing your own plants 9. First design steps
10. Designing wind protection 11. Canopy species 12. Designing the canopy
layer 13. Shrub species 14. Designing the shrub layer 15. Herbaceous
perennial and ground-cover species 16. Designing the perennial/ground-cover
layer 17. Annuals, biennials and climbers 18. Designing with annuals,
biennials and climbers Part 3: Extra design elements and maintenance 19.
Clearings 20. Paths 21. Fungi in forest gardens 22. Harvesting and
preserving 23. Maintenance 24. Ongoing tasks Glossary Appendix 1:
Propagation tables Appendix 2: Trees and shrubs for hedging and fencing
Appendix 3: Plants to attract beneficial insects and bees Appendix 4:
Edible crops by month of use Resources: Useful organisations, suppliers and
publications
