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How to Make a Forest Garden, 3rd Edition Paperback – June 22, 2002

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A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large rural garden.

A close copy of a natural ecosystem, it is perhaps the most ecologically friendly way of gardening open to us.

It is also a low-maintenance way of gardening. Once established there is none of the digging, sowing, planting out and hoeing of the conventional kitchen garden. The main task is picking up the produce!

This highly practical, yet inspiring book gives you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden,
including:

  • Basic principles
  • Layout
  • How to choose plants
  • Details of over one hundred plants, from apples to mushrooms
  • the most comprehensive account of perennial and self-seeding vegetables in print
  • A step-by-step guide to creating your garden
  • Full details of an example garden, and pictures of many more

Forest gardening is an important element of permaculture. This book explains in detail permaculture design for temperate climates and contains much of interest for anybody wanting to introduce sustainable practices into their garden.

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  1. Print length
    184 pages
  2. Language
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    June 22, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    8.03 x 0.51 x 11.02 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1856230082
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1856230087
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  • Strawberry_Toast
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book! Gives a lot of information
    Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014
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    Excellent book! Gives a lot of information for planning purposes, including diagrams and things I wouldn't have considered. Goes WAY beyond simply choosing plants that work together to include the uses of walls, manners of pruning (or not pruning) trees, and how a forest garden will morph over time as larger plants mature. As someone fairly new to gardening looking for a more technical book this was perfect.
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  • Flemming Andersen
    5.0 out of 5 stars How to Make a Forest Garden, 3rd Edition
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2013
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    As we are in the middle of establishing our own permaculture forest garden, this book just hits the spot. An excellent introduction to temperate permaculture and implementing it in a forest garden
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  • Hendrik Bright
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for the British gardener starting with a forest garden
    Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2012
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    How to make a forest garden is an encyclopedic introduction to designing and maintaining a forest garden. Especially if you have a small garden, How to make a forest garden gives many interesting hints and advice. The author is a permaculturist, which permeates throughout the book. It is aimed at the Forest Gardener of Northwestern Europe. This is not the best book for Forest Gardening. The book from Crawford is much better, because it has been written 14 years later and because it is more complete.
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  • Charles Andrew Wingard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2004
    If you are into permaculture, agroforestry, or bored with row crop gardening, this book is for you. Peter is from Britain but, his book is very useful for the temparate US. Peter discusses planting trees, shrubs and an herb layer all in your garden, mimmicking the layers of a forest. There's lots of good info on cultivars, including some lesser known fruits and veggies. This book is much more practical and informative than Robert Hart's book Forest Gardening.
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  • B. L. Nielsen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear explanations of basic concepts.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007
    I bought this book for my wife who is an avid gardener and who has been studying permaculture for several years. We wanted a good book that would explain basic concepts of "forest gardens" that we have only begun to study. She loves the book, and while traveling recently, she read the first two chapters to me. I found the author's explanations to be very clear and concise. He presented some ideas which got me thinking differently about the way we develop and use our small yard. We are anxious to try out many of the ideas he presented. Overall, we are both very happy with this book, and it well fulfilled our expectations. If there is one downside to the book at all, it is the fact that he bases his explanations on the circumstances and climate of Great Britain. We would love it if he had his forest garden here in our area, and mentioned plants specific to our area. That makes it a bit of a challenge to interpret the specific methods to our own climate, but the general principles are useful anywhere. Yes, we highly recommend this book!
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  • Edward Brinkley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a 'forest garden blueprint' for us all.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2006
    If you are looking for a book that will inspire you to make a forest / woodland garden then this book has everything and more.

    When the realisation of low-maintenance gardening can produce such an incredible variety of produce, in such a sustainable way, it defies belief that this way of gardening is not implemented all over the world.

    Absolute value for money, and, as the principals of forest garden can be easily applied to the smallest garden space, there is no excuse for anybody not to give it a go.

    This book will give you all the help and guidance you need to make this vision a reality and the plants will just keep on giving. Truly inspirational.
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  • Nathan Carlos Rupley
    4.0 out of 5 stars How To Make A Forest Garden.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2010
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    Pretty impressed with this book. It is an excellent resource, and provides a very good introduction to forest gardening. This book will be most useful to people who live in the UK, but can be useful to anyone in a somewhat similar climate. My only real complaint is just that I wish it leaned more towards the use of native plants. Very glad that I own this book.
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  • Jana L. Conkle
    4.0 out of 5 stars A resource for your forest gardening plans
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2010
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    How to Make a Forest Garden is a slender volume at only 160 pages, but it covers the basics fairly well. Addressing many areas concerning this form of permaculture, I nonetheless felt that more illustrations and designs would have helped explain the many detailed and specific concepts covered here more fully. Whitefield's offering is good, I just wanted MORE!
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  • Accessible Earth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tout pour commencer son propre jardin forestier
    Reviewed in France on July 17, 2019
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    Plein d'information... me sera très utile.
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  • debhenri
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very concise and informative read, essential for the budding forest gardener
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2015
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    This is a fantastic book. Just what I was looking for. Don't be concerned about the black & white photos. Like many colour photos in other books, they are a mere guide. Besides, it's the info you want, and here it's priceless.
    I have just started to plant up my own forest garden on 2 acres of land, with almost no money left to spare. So the right advice for the best plants (which I grow entirely from seeds, cuttings, or by grafting, or through swapping with friends) is absolutely crucial.
    I have no room for making any economic mistakes here!
    Mr Whitefield encourages you to make the most of what nature has to offer in order to create your no-dig or restricted-dig forest garden, approaching the matter of mulches, weeds and pests in a sensible way. (So nice to see a keen gardener who understands that not everyone has access to 'Gardener's World' type TV budgets).
    There is advice on so many other aspects of 'healthier, greener' methods of growing food and materials (such as for basketry) it is almost impossible to list them all without writing down a good part of the book. There is careful consideration given to how best to plant the forest so that it gains the maximum levels of light for better growth, water usage & collecting, pruning.
    Even though my own embryonic-forest is only just starting to produce the odd berry and mushroom (and that's despite the fact that it still looks little more than a rather weedy field), through this book I have come to see that there are even more ways of raising foods & materials that will not compromise the balance of nature. Indeed, your mind begins to run riot and you start to see even more ways that the book doesn't include, so it is idea-inspiring too.
    As I have just started to introduce fungi species, with the intention of growing many more types of edible and symbiotic fungi, I was happy to see a couple of lengthy paragraphs have been included on this newly appreciated yet essential side to successful gardening. However, perhaps, in later editions, there could be a little more emphasis on this subject? Or perhaps another book?
    You don't need a big garden either. That point comes across very clearly. You can begin to raise your own mini-forest in a very small space indeed, and I'm not just talking about the pocket-handkerchief gardens that are squeezed in behind modern developments. Even a productive container or kitchen windowsill is given mention here. Having lived previously in a place with a 10 x 4 foot deeply-shaded concrete yard, I know it is possible to grow a reasonable amount of food in such places, with the added benefit that you know exactly 'how' that food was grown!
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  • Jojo P
    5.0 out of 5 stars How to Make a Forest Garden
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2009
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    What a fabulous book. Everything I wanted and more. Patrick gives so much information for the beginner or experienced gardener. Forest gardening is a 3 layered technique to provided maximum yield of food production all year round. This is something we should all be looking to do over the next few years as our global supplies of oil run out. By 2013 there will be no more oil - world wide - and as our whole existence at present relies totally on its production we will be facing the biggest challenge yet in producing enough food to survive. Forest gardening is possibly the only way for each individual and/or community to sustain year round supplies of food to prevent starvation. I kid you not. Buy it - read it - DO IT - NOW - whilst there is still a little time.
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  • Paul of London
    4.0 out of 5 stars classic guide to properly designing a Forest Garden (but don't believe the hype: FG yields are limited to greens, fruit & herbs)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2015
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    This is a great book for someone who wants to design and plan a Forest Garden and to understand the concept properly.

    It gets lots of praise elsewhere, so let me offer some feet-on-the-ground criticism - not so much about the book but about the idea that forest gardening is a realistic route to family food self-sufficiency. I read a lot of nonsense claiming Forest Gardens can feed the nation.

    * My take-home message is that the Forest Garden thing is very over-hyped in terms of how much of your weekly shopping you can actually, really produce for yourself. *

    You can produce fruit (many types) and greens (many types, for salads and cooking) and herbs ... but not much else. And most crops are typically available only for a small portion of the year.

    I can hear the space-cadets: 'oh Paul, you're not being fair! what about that handful of tiny hazelnuts we can grow? and what about the foul dandelion 'coffee' we can make?'.

    If you are interested in genuine food production (rather than symbolic gestures) then wake up to this reality:
    Look at your grocery shopping list - does it contain more than fruit, greens and herbs?
    and do you go shopping every week or only in the spring and summer?

    The fact is, old-school dig-for-victory gardening is still needed if you want any carbs or any three-dimensional non-leaf vegetables: potatoes (or the more fashionable oca or yacon), carrots, parsnips, turnips - all that stuff needs digging.

    So yes, this is a great book on the topic, but do be realistic about what you can get from a Forest Garden. I think the main yield is the pleasure of tinkering in it and talking about it - and an incentive to make your diet more healthy because you'll be growing plenty of fresh fruit and greens (sometimes). But a substitute for other gardening and food-shopping it is not.

    If you still want to grow a Forest Garden, be sure to check out some other sources for your plant list (Crawford and PFAF) - Whitefield's plant list is not very balanced. That said, his overall approach is excellent so this book is a good place to start designing from.
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  • Logic Droid
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good and concise guide
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2020
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    Clear, specific and well-written, this is a very good book. The experience of the author shows in his sensible observations and recommendations. Despite other reviews, I found the black-and-white pictures fine and effective, and don't think there is any need for colour. Colour merely uses more energy and resources for the same job.
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