Grow more food, with nature – beautiful productive planting for people and wildlife, from gardens and food forests to farms.
What is perennial food growing?
As I explain at the start of my book Grower Gatherer, perennial edibles are easy-to-grow food plants and fungi that continue living from year to year. They provide food across the world at low cost or for free, and can usually be grown with minimal effort…
Why grow perennial food?
There are absolutely loads of reasons to grow more perennial food, from making our lives easier to helping wildlife while also contributing to slowing global warming…
How to design a beautiful edible garden
When I started growing edible foods more seriously as an adult on my old allotment in London, I quickly noticed that most food plants are just as beautiful as any other ornamental plant…
Explore Grower Gatherer
Discover a curated selection of delicious, easy to grow perennial vegetables, fruit, herbs, nuts, fungi and edible flowers – and how to combine them into beautiful, productive plant communities. Find out more >
How to grow perennial food and garden for wildlife?
I suspect edible perennial crops go multiple steps further than many other plants by providing birds, insects and mammals reliable food and shelter for years and years…
How do edible plant communities work?
The phrase plant community comes from ecology, the scientific study of nature. It describes the plant part of an ecosystem where different plant species grow side by side in an ecosystem…
What is an edible hedge for foraging?
An edible hedge is boundary planting that uses a mix of perennial plants with edible parts such as leaves, fruits, nuts and flowers. …
Food growing jargon buster
Permaculture, edible plant community, agroforestry, edimental, no-dig, forest garden – gardening these days is a confusing world of jargon – most isn’t needed…
What is a food forest garden?
Forest garden and food forest generally mean the same thing, an area of garden or farm that consists of crops grown among trees in a way that mimics natural woodland or forest…