Ken Fern leads us through a garden of improbable delights – cold climate yams five feet long, edible fuschia fruits, trees laden with delicious berries ail through the winter, leaves and flowers with the most subtle and astonishing flavours.
It is hard to over-estimate the importance and likely impact of this book. Plants For A Future hugely widens the range of edible species which we can, with confidence, grow in temperate climates. 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 around the year. It is, in short, the first shot in an impending horticultural revolution. The resuit of an insatiable curiosity and years of painstaking research, this book is comparable in stature only to the works of Evelyn and Culpeper.
Professor George Monbiot, environmental campaigner, founder of The Land Is Ours.