The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook

This book provides extensive practical information on designing for growing and harvesting medicinal trees and shrubs in a temperate climate, whether for self-sufficiency or profit. There is advice on the design of new planting projects with medicinal trees and shrubs or how to incorporate them into an existing small garden or woodlands. Topics covered include - Key medicinal constituents of woody plants and their medicinal effects – Our historical knowledge of using medicinal trees and shrubs – Combinations of woody and other layers of medicinal plants suitable for forest gardens and permaculture projects – Management including coppicing and pollarding of medicinal trees and shrubs – How to harvest and store bark, flowers, fruit and leaves from trees and shrubs – Sample recipes for making a range of herbal health care products This handbook includes 40 detailed profiles of medicinal trees and shrubs, providing referenced information about their medicinal potential and uses alongside cultivation and harvest details. Further appendices and case studies provide practical examples and more resources. Scaling up cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs for commercial purpose is also discussed in this book, with an overview of relevant accreditation bodies and regulations.