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Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

Weiseman, Wayne
Halsey, Daniel
Ruddock, Bryce

Paperback

AgricultureGeneral GardeningOrganic Gardening

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1603584978
ISBN13: 9781603584975
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: Jul 28 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 7.94 Depth: 10.05
Language: English
This book is the first, and most comprehensive, guide about plant guilds ever written, and covers in detail both what guilds are and how to design and construct them, complete with extensive color photography and design illustrations.

One of the essential practices of permaculture is to develop perennial agricultural systems that thrive over several decades without expensive and harmful inputs: perennial plant guilds, food forests, agroforestry, and mixed animal and woody species polycultures.

The massive degradation of conventional agriculture and the environmental havoc it creates has never been as all pervasive in terms of scale, so it has become a global necessity to further the understanding of a comprehensive design and planning system such as permaculture that works with nature, not against it. The guild concept often used is one of a functional relationship between plants-beneficial groupings of plants that share functions in order to bring health and stability to a plant regime and create an abundant yield for our utilization. In other words, it is the integration of species that creates a balanced, healthy, and thriving ecosystem. But it goes beyond integration. A guild is a metaphor for all walks of life, most importantly a group of people working together to craft works of balance, beauty, and utility.

Included in Integrated Forest Gardening is information on

- What we can observe about natural plant guilds in the wild and the importance of observation;

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