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1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Permaculture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Edible forest gardens -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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GARDENING -- Garden Design.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Edible forest gardens. (OCoLC)fst01736278
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Permaculture. (OCoLC)fst01058233
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Czolba, Michelle, author.
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| Other Form: |
Frey, Darrell. Food forest handbook.: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2017] ©2017 (CaOONL)20179013351 |
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Print version: Frey, Darrell. Food forest handbook. Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2017] 0865718121 9780865718128 (OCoLC)973044214 |
| ISBN |
9781550926224 (PDF) |
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9781771422116 (EPUB) |
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