Martin crawford has 15 books on goodreads with 1784 ratings. The 1 acre forest garden was first planted with fruit and timber trees in february. Earth care manual for several years and coauthored food from your forest garden. Case study transforming a front garden into a cornfield annual meadow a case study showing how we transformed an average sized front plot into a nectar, colour and wildlife rich haven. There are good books around creating a forest garden by martin crawford for. Newly established plantations that support abundant herbaceous vegetation will provide sustenance for species dependent on cover provided by such vegetation. Martin crawfords most popular book is creating a forest garden. Care manual for several years and coauthored food from your forest garden. This 4 min intro is one of the best short introductions to the food forest or forest garden concept.
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Creating a forest garden the agroforestry research trust. Tours of martin crawfords established and pioneering forest garden at. There are 15 online course episodes with accompanying pdf notes. Martin crawford was one of those early visitors to harts forest garden, and since then has made the single most extraordinary contribution to our understanding of what makes a forest garden actually work. The longawaited definitive book on forest gardening. Martin crawford has written a comprehensive design manual for creating a forest garden. This merges with the groundcovering layer see below and is sometimes part of it.
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