Ben Raskin

It's the first time I have co-written and what at joy. Andy and I worked together more than a decade ago helping to set up the Community Farm near Bristol. We stayed friends ever since and this collaboration "Silvohorticulture" is the first book to offer a detailed, practical guide on how to effectively integrate trees with vegetable growing. Drawing on our personal experiences of designing and managing agroforestry systems as well as our commercial horticultural crop production history, this is the definitive book on the interaction between trees and crops, covering the benefits of trees for edible crops and the potential for additional crops from trees, plus crucial new information on how to fit trees into complex crop rotations as well as manipulating access to light.

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We learnt a lot writing it too and can share some crucial stuff about how tree roots behave and, importantly, how that impacts your crops. Agroforestry can bring immense benefits to farmers and growers – not just optimising yield, but also improving soil, managing pests and water, increasing biodiversity and reducing costs – but system design must be customised to each grower’s requirements.

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This book offers step-by-step detail that will allow you to manage your trees and crops successfully.