The Forager's Garden: Grow an Edible Sanctuary in Your Own Backyard [Paperback]

A handy, accessible guide to creating your own paradise plot where you can forage throughout the year

Anna Locke condenses years of hands-on experience to walk you through the skills and techniques you need to design and plant a delicious, useful, and thriving garden in town or country that is also a haven for wildlife as well as for humans. She encourages us to see our gardens as part of a bigger, local food strategy that can help to generate abundance, health and resilience.

This book provides:
• An overview of organic gardening techniques—great for the beginner
• A basic, accessible guide to designing your garden
• Insights into how to plant guilds and choose what is right for your space
• Valuable information on how ‘weeds’ can become harvests
• A choice of nutritious, seasonal plants for any sized plot
• Techniques to grow maximum food with minimal work
• Practices that reconnect you with Nature and enhance well-being
• Money saving tips to make a forager’s garden available to anyone!

The Forager’s Garden demonstrates one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways possible to grow and harvest food.“Anna Locke gives us a fascinating and refreshing insight into a world where food growing at home imitates multi-layered communities of Nature. Here, foraging is not simply about reaping wild food from the countryside but bringing a bit of the countryside into your garden. This is an engaging and encouraging read, full of experience, information and advice which makes us look at gardening in a different and rewarding way.”—Fergus Garrett, CEO and Head Gardener, Great Dixter House and Gardens

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