Author: Patrick Whitefield
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002
Soft Cover, 8.0″x10.5″, 160 pages

This highly practical, yet inspiring book gives you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden. Whitefield painstakingly reviews all aspects of a forest garden from why you might want to build one to the design, the main components, basic principles, land preparation, as well as plant, tree, and shrub selection.

Forest gardening is an important element of permaculture. This book explains in detail permaculture design for temperate climates and contains much of interest for anybody wanting to introduce sustainable practices into their garden.