Reviews

Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops by Martin Crawford

beepuke's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

Great for discovering unique crops for a variety of conditions and climates.

lobeliaparides's review against another edition

3.0

Not entirely what I was expecting, but helpful none the less!

mthorley23's review against another edition

4.0

Always exciting to find a gardening book relevant to your climate. Lots of pictures and plant descriptions and tables for useful plants.

martha_anne_h's review against another edition

informative

elliebooks's review against another edition

5.0

Brilliant, indispensable guide to creating a forest garden, with full page lists of species, spacings, attributes.
Well set out and easy to follow. I would not design a food forest without this book

regendanser's review

informative

5.0

ssgcedits's review

hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Invaluable information made accessible through both the language and outline of the pages themselves. Whether you are trying to build a forest garden or just want to get the most out of your traditional garden, you should have a look at this one. It also doesn't hurt that it's beautifully edited and filled with inspiring photographs.

aimee70807's review

4.0

If you're just starting out, Creating a Forest Garden is the best book to plan your forest garden with. It simplifies the ideas behind forest gardening and is based on the author's 15+ years of hands-on experiences in his own forest garden.

I docked a star because so much of the book is species lists, which are problematic for beginners. First, they get folks too excited! Second, each species' use is very location-specific, so the information in the book might not be accurate.

Since we've been experimenting with forest gardening for four years now, what I actually wanted to read was a blow by blow description of the author's forest garden. Maybe he'll publish that next?