This classic bestseller is back in print by popular demand. It is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs for a combination or ornamental and culinary purposes. It includes descriptions of plants for all temperate habitats, methods for improving soil, attracting beneficial insects and using planting to shelter your home.

A few modifications and additions could enhance the value of most gardens for wildlife. Offering practical advice and ideas for improvements and where possible suggests the inclusion of extra features which will support and encourage a rich diversity of plant, insect, bird and animal life. ` '..a nice book...lively drawings which clearly illustrate techniques...covers everything...a good starter book' Permaculture.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of this book. It shows us how to use land more efficiently and sustainably than ever before and it brings to our sadly limited cuisine a vast new range of remarkable foods all the year round. It is in short the first shot in an impending horticultural revolution.