The most comprehensive nut book, covering all aspects of growing, harvesting, processing and using nuts, based on forest gardening principles.

A beautifully presented, clear, comprehensive bible from the man who knows more than anyone about growing nuts Mark Diacono, gardener, food writer and broadcaster How to Grow Your Own Nuts is the best guide I've seen to home and small-farm nut growing for the temperate climates, featuring species selection, cultivating, harvest, and processing. - Eric Toensmeier, permaculturist, author and Yale University lecturer All who have room for a tree should grow nuts – serious nutrition with huge gastronomic potential. In yet another beautiful book, one of our most accomplished forest gardeners shows how. Colin Tudge, biologist, science writer and broadcaster, founder of The Campaign for Real Farming Nuts - so delicious, nutritious and versatile - are at the heart of our culinary tradition and every page of this unique book is rich with the authenticity, passion and experience of a master grower. This practical and inspiring book is a comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting and processing nuts for the gardener, homesteader and commercial farmer. Filled with gorgeous illustrations of trees and nuts in all stages of maturity, it covers old favourites (hazelnuts and walnuts) and less common varieties (hickories and butternuts) too. Martin’s earlier books on creating a forest garden, and growing perennial vegetables, are considered must-read "how to" handbooks. This will be, too.

A comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting and processing nuts, written by forest gardening expert Martin Crawford. Nut trees are perennials, requiring little maintenance or soil cultivation, so it is no surprise that nuts are such a popular forest garden crop. A crucial source of protein and a delicious snack, nuts also have a number of surprising health benefits. They lower blood pressure, are full of antioxidants, and decrease the risk of heart and neurodegenerative diseases. Filled with gorgeous illustrations of trees and nuts, How to Grow Your Own Nuts contains old favourites like hazelnuts and walnuts alongside less common varieties such as hickories and butternuts and the exotically named chinkapin. It considers how nuts can be planted in a variety of ways: singly in a small area, in an orchard or nuttery, as silvopasture around grazing animals, in alley cropping between cereal crops or intercropping between fruit bushes. This beautiful guide also features a handy A-Z, which details nut trees’ many secondary uses from timber, oil, dyes, fodder and cosmetics to medicines and honey. Martin also discusses how the beautiful spring blossom is attractive to bees, particularly from almond and sweet chestnut trees, making them excellent for supporting pollinators. Whether you are planning to grow nuts at home or commercially, this book is essential reading.