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Review ------ This lovely book makes it clear that we are not just missing a trick, we are missing a feast. --Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall A really useful book... Let us start freeing outselves from the tyranny of the annual sowing, thinning and ing regime. --Bob Flowerdew I admire tremendously the first-hand experience which informs Martin Crawford's writing. This book leads us down the path to a wealth of perennial vegetables and tells us how to combine them successfully. -- Anne Swithinbank. At last an in-depth book on perennial vegetables combined with Martin Crawford's usual diligence of research - essential reading. --Ben Law About the Author ---------------- Martin started his working life a computer programmer but his passion for gardening quickly led to a change in career. Martin has had broad and varied horticultural/agricultural experience over the last 25 years - he has worked for the Yarner Trust in North Devon teaching small-scale agriculture; grown food for a small hotel on the Isle of Iona; restored the walled gardens of a manor house in mid-Devon; and run his own market garden and tree nursery in South Devon. His experience led him to the concept of forest gardening as a sustainable system that can flourish in our changing climate conditions and it was this that led to the founding of the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992, where he has been systematically researching interactions, unusual crops, etc over the past 15 years. He currently manages a 2 acre Forest Garden in Dartington which he ed 15 years ago, he runs a commercial tree nursery speing in unusual trees and shrubs and has an 8-acre trial site, researching fruit and nut trees. He also teaches courses on Forest Gardening and Growing Nut Crops, writes books and edits a quarterly journal, Agroforestry News. He is a director of 'Gaia', a Trust formed by James Lovelock to further his work. He lives in Dartington with his wife and 2 children. See www.agroforestry.co.uk for more information.