PLANTS FOR YOUR FOOD FOREST: 500 PLANTS FOR TEMPERATE FOOD FORESTS AND PERMACULTURE GARDENS

This book has so much clear and useful information about how to start and grow a food forest, wild garden, and medicinal plant garden.

I had been looking forward to receiving this book and having an index of plants for my garden. Unfortunately, a beginner could've written a better book.It started out dandy, with sketches and a very descriptive platform that took about a page for each and every plant. A few pages later the descriptions tended to diminish in size to about a paragraph. A few pages more it was just a sketch with icons telling you about the plants. Until, not 10 pages in, it was just a list of plants.On almost every page it tells you to go to their free website "pfaf.org" which has more information... About everything... The website has 7000+ plants, which is more than this book that contains only 500. Why even write a book? It would be easier to print off all the information from the site and create your own book for free. At least then you could alphabetize it yourself, because the book is not in alphabetical order. They break it down into sections: shrubs, ground coverage, trees, and climbers. In those sections are the lists of plants that are not in any particular order.The sections that were complete were very informative and enjoyable to read. Until I started logically thinking about what they were saying. They claimed that oak had the highest edibility rating, then described that it was highly poisonous unless you processed only the edible nuts for up to 4 months. A few pages later they gave a low edibility rating to a plant that you could eat all parts of raw!This book is nothing more than a good idea that was never finished. I have no idea how the editor passed this book off as complete enough to print. Do not waste your money on this book. Their website is much better.

Like plants for a future and this gem of a book had a fair bit of good information and is a permanent addition to my own little reference library.

Excellent in my home library.

I skimmed through the book, which at first glance appeared comically thin, but I see a lot of work has been done to put all the information in a dynamic and easy to understand format. I am very disappointed with the quality of the hardcover version. I really don't think it is worth the price. The pages inside are very thin, almost like it is a fake copy of an original, and the plastic hardcover is just cheap- they really did not put any effort in the actual physical book. Quite sad really.

Thinking about growing a Food Forest but don't know where to start? Start with this book - all you need to know about which plants to grow and the conditions they need, in an easy to use format. Supporting information is freely available on the Plants for a Future website which is my Go-to website for plant information. A book for every bookshelf.

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Currently designing a food forest and found the book excellent for researching plants. It includes several plants I was already considering, with lots of other plants I'd not considered that will be very useful. I particularly liked the additional information and sections on other plant uses, including nitrogen fixers, dynamic accumulators and groundcovers. The book is split into chapters by food forest layer, including shrubs, trees, herbaceous plants, bamboos, bulbs, and climbers. The shrub and herbaceous plants chapters include groundcovers sections. Each chapter ends with a quick reference table on the plant's edible parts and uses. Each plant has icons to represent the plant uses visually. It took me a while to remember each one, but it makes it much easier to skim through the book once they are familiar. The book saved me a considerable amount of time researching these plants individually.