After several years working in organic agriculture and horticulture, Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992. Since then he has focused on researching and growing perennial food systems including forest gardens and orchards of nut trees and uncommon fruits. He runs the nursery at ART which propagates and sells many different tree and perennial plants and is the author of many popular books and papers.
He is the author of several titles, including Trees for Gardens, Orchards and Permaculture and Shrubs for Gardens, Agroforestry and Permaculture.