Edible Perennial Gardening: Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces
“I love Anni’s book. She’s taken traditionally ‘big space’ ideas and approaches and brought them alive on a domestic scale, where most gardeners operate. The bigger picture of redesigning our food system with perennials at its heart underlies, yet it never gets in the way of inspiring and enabling the reader with case studies, examples, advice, and experience. A must-have for forward-thinking gardeners.”--Mark Diacono, experimental gardener, journalist and author of A Year at Otter Farm"This is a valuable addition to the literature on growing perennial vegetables. The author’s experiences of creating and maintaining polycultures are a great guide and inspiration to this challenging aspect of edible perennial gardening.”--Martin Crawford,Director of the Agroforestry Research Trustand author of Creating a Forest Garden and How To Grow Perennial Vegetables"Anni Kelsey has a knowledge of perennial vegetables second to none. Now all that knowledge has overflowed from her garden into this rich and rewarding book. Perennial vegetables are one field of gardening that is still relatively unknown and Anni makes a significant impact on the body of knowledge we have about them. Follow her into her garden – abundance awaits you!"--Patrick Whitefield, permaculture teacher, designer and author of The Earth Care Manual“The best books on food growing are those written with a ‘warts and all’, practical perspective. Edible Perennial Gardening is an important book to help us to understand this vital topic. This wonderful guide is a bible.”--Michael Kelly, journalist, broadcaster, author and founder of GIY (Grow it Yourself)