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Food from your Forest Garden: How to harvest, cook and preserve your forest garden produce Paperback – June 20, 2013
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How do you cook heartnuts, hawthorn fruits or hostas? What's the best way to preserve autumn olives or to dry chestnuts?
Forest gardening – a novel way of growing edible crops in different vertical layers – is attracting increasing interest, for gardens large or small. But when it comes to harvest time, how do you make the most of the produce?
From bamboo shoots and beech leaves to medlars and mashua, Food from your Forest Garden offers creative and imaginative ways to enjoy the crops from your forest garden. It provides cooking advice and recipe suggestions, with notes on every species in the bestselling Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford. The book includes more than 100 recipes for over 50 different species, presented by season, plus raw food options. It also provides information on the plants' nutritional value, with advice on harvesting and processing, as well as detailed instructions on preserving methods, from traditional preserves such as jams to ferments and fruit leathers.
With beautiful colour photographs of plants and recipes, this book is an invaluable resource for making the most of your forest garden – and an inspiration for anyone thinking of growing and using forest garden crops.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGreen Books
- Publication dateJune 20, 2013
- Dimensions1 x 1 x 1 inches
- ISBN-100857841122
- ISBN-13978-0857841124
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Hannah W.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 20135.0 out of 5 stars Food from your forest graden
I will cherish this book! It is so inspiring, bringing the forest garden alive as potential yummy culinary cuisine. No longer will you be bemused and confused by your produce! Very well presented and easy to follow recipes, with heaps of ideas and exciting creations to try. If you have a forest garden, you must have this book!
HeidiReviewed in Canada on November 7, 20214.0 out of 5 stars A bit extreme
I like the layout of the book and the many recipes. However, a recipe on how to cook squirrel is going too far! I will starve before I eat a rodent. Not only that, but I love squirrels and will never ever hurt them. Sorry, but this recipe does not belong in a book on foraging.
J. SchoelkopfReviewed in Germany on March 17, 20205.0 out of 5 stars I'm full of praise
Wonderful book, high quality matt paper, good fotographs.
Chapter about harvesting, Drying, Fermentation making jams and chutneys, pickling, infusions, etc...what about a Szechuan infused rice vinegar? Many helpful tables summarising the parameters.
Edible permaculture plants are introduced grouped for season. More plants here than on many other permaculture books.
The recipes are excellent inspiration and seeded in through out the whole book....already the titles are mouth watering: Alexanders and Babbinghton leak linguine, fiddle head fritters, daylilly and courgette soup, turkish rocket and potato salat, toffee medlars....
Finally extensive overview tables at the end, e.g. by month and indices. Great!
Sue hasellReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 20185.0 out of 5 stars both very good buys and looking forward to making some of the ...
both very good buys and looking forward to making some of the interesting recipes. i love foraging and going home to cook up something that from the wild and free!!
SandyReviewed in Canada on September 16, 20134.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning plants
Very good book full of very useful information not found elsewhere. Recipes and charts for harvesting and preservation are included.



