{"product_id":"the-food-forest-handbook-design-and-manage-a-home-scale-perennial-polyculture-garden-paperback","title":"The Food Forest Handbook: Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarrell Frey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Czolba\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Food Forest Handbook is a comprehensive guide to creating abundance though low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production based on perennial polyculture management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreate ongoing abundance with low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Food Forest Handbook \u003cem\u003e is an outstanding work that should be in the libraries of urban planners, designers, gardeners, property owners, naturalists, and even survivalists. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- JOSEPH JENKINS, author, \u003cem\u003e The Humanure Handbook \u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Slate Roof Bible \u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e Balance Point \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e What happens if we were to drop the boundary between the built environment and nature? Wouldn't we all be much better off? \u003c\/em\u003e The Food Forest Handbook \u003cem\u003e guides our first steps along that path \u003c\/em\u003e . \u003cbr\u003e -- ALBERT BATES, author, \u003cem\u003e The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e The Biochar Solution \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA FOOD FOREST is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials, helping increase biodiversity, protect valuable habitat for beneficial insects, and promote food security and resilience, all while providing an abundant annual harvest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Authors Michelle Czolba and Darrell Frey bring years of experience building and maintaining food forests to provide this practical and accessible guide to creating your own food forest landscape, whether you're urban, suburban, or rural.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis practical manual for the design and management of a home-scale perennial polyculture garden covers all the steps to guide the reader through the process, including: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting started - site assessment and planning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTending the forest garden - maintaining soil health, succession planning, mulching, pruning and more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe fruits of your labor - crop profiles, harvest, storage, nutrition and recipes.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely book makes the concept of food forests accessible to everyone. Focusing on the potential of perennial polyculture to enhance local food systems, The Food Forest Handbook shows the reader how to mix and match plants in unique combinations to establish bountiful landscapes and create genuine self-reliance in years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrey and Czolba share the valuable fruit of their decades of experience with this carbon-friendly gardening form. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- ERIC TOENSMEIER, author, \u003cem\u003e The Carbon Farming Solution \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e DARRELL FREY \u003c\/strong\u003e is the owner and manager of Three Sisters Farm, a 5-acre permaculture farm, solar greenhouse and market garden located in Western Pennsylvania. He has been permaculture teacher for 30 years, and is the author of \u003cem\u003e Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm \u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e MICHELLE CZOLBA \u003c\/strong\u003e is co-owner of Pittsburgh Permaculture and co-founded the Hazelwood Food Forest.She has extensive experience in the design and maintenance of perennial polyculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Michelle Czolba \u003c\/b\u003e is co-owner of Pittsburgh Permaculture and co-founded the Hazelwood Food Forest. She has extensive experience in the design and maintenance of perennial polyculture. Her formal training includes biology, chemistry, and herbalism, and she has earned a B.Sc. in Environmental Science and a M.Sc. in Sustainable Systems. After obtaining her Herbal Certification Michelle founded Wildly Natural Skin Care, and developed her own full line of handmade, wildcrafted and organic skin care products. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Darrell Frey \u003c\/b\u003e is the owner and manager of Three Sisters Farm, a 5-acre permaculture farm, solar greenhouse and market garden located in Western Pennsylvania. He facilitates workshops and delivers keynote presentations on permaculture design, perennial polyculture management and ecological land use planning, and has been a sustainable community development consultant and permaculture teacher for 30 years. 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