Robert Hart

Forest Gardening

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Forest gardening is a way of working with Nature which is not only productive, requiring minimal maintenance, but creates great environmental benefits. Robert created a magnificent garden which had a profound influence on the way people cultivated their land. It was a garden dedicated to human needs for fruit, nuts, vegetables and plant medicines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781900322027
• ISBN-10: 1900322021
• Artikelnr.: 23537663

Autorenporträt

Robert Hart

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Herbert Girardet
Prologue: The Mini-forest
1. Towards a Forest Economy
2. Unity and Diversity
3. Health & Wholeness
4. Personal Pilgrimage
5. The Wenlock Edge Project
6. Plant Life: Its Infinite Potentialities
7. Design & Maintenance
8. Water and No Water
9. Stored up Sunshine: Energy Yesterday and Tomorrow
10. The Thinking Hand: Skills of the Craftsman
11. Agroforestry Against World Want
12. Green is Real
13. Where Do We Go From Here?
Epilogue: A New Twist in the Evolutionary Spiral
Appendix 1 Recommended Species: Temperate
Appendix 2 Recommended Species:
Tropical and Sub-tropical
References
Suggested further reading
Recommended suppliers in the UK
Membership organisations
Index