Produktbeschreibung
Practical information on growing, harvesting and using medicinal trees and shrubs sustainably in a temperate climate, whether for self-sufficiency or profit >Includes: - How medicinal trees can contribute to health and the environment - Practical advice on designing with medicinal trees and shrubs using permaculture principles, as well as their propagation and establishment - Combinations of woody and other layers of medicinal plants suitable for creating a medicinal forest garden or inclusion in other growing projects - Management for a sustainable harvest including coppicing and pollarding of medicinal trees and shrubs - Key medicinal constituents of woody plants and research studies into their effects - How to harvest and preserve products from medicinal trees and shrubs effectively - Recipes for making a range of herbal health care products - Detailed monographs on medicinal trees and shrubs, providing fully referenced information about their medicinal potential and uses, alongside cultivation and harvest details.