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Living with the Earth: Volume 2

Food Crops and Forest Gardens

Perrine, Charles Herve-Gruyer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Permanent Publications

Published:30th Apr '24

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A highly detailed and beautifully illustrated guide to growing nutritious herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables, ideal for the home grower and market gardener. Perrine and Charles Herve-Gruyer have designed a small farm in Normandy that is so productive, it provides a living for five people whilst cultivating just a small percentage of the land, and rewilding the rest. In Volume 1 of Living with the Earth, they describe the overarching principles and influences of ecology and permaculture, and share how they work with Nature to create highly productive systems. Volume 2 of this comprehensive series dives deep into the details. Subjects include: * growing methods * seeding & soil preparation * plant densities and replicable crop associations * tools, irrigation and harvesting * growing year-round * vegetables, fruit, microgreens, flowers, mushrooms, tree crops and forest gardens. Beautifully designed and full of useful, descriptive photographs, diagrams and charts, this manual provides a wealth of research and practical experience. These volumes are ground-breaking, with principles and practices that can be used on any scale. They are, however, of particular interest to small to medium scale farmers, horticulturists, forest gardeners, agronomists and market gardeners.

"Farmer-authors Perrine and Charles Herve-Gruyer offer the world a beautiful gift through sharing this detailed practical guide of how to connect with nature to produce luscious food abundance, by hand, on a small permaculture farm and make a living." Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education Institute

ISBN: 9781856232692

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464 pages