Agroforestry News

Agroforestry News is our quarterly newsletter, focusing on temperate tree and shrubs crops, and includes :

• reports on agroforestry research projects
• regular articles on fruit and nut growing
• in-depth profiles of unusual tree and shrub crops
• native tree profiles
• propagation techniques
• forest gardening
• useful ground covers
• book reviews

Two sample articles (Acca/Feijoa sellowiana - Pineapple Guava; and Quince - Cydonia oblonga) are included in this site.

A complete index to all articles is also available here.

Essential reading or all who are interested in temperate tree crops and agroforestry, Agroforestry News is available by subscription at the following rates (per year - 4 issues) including postage:

U.K. & E.C. individuals : £21 (£17 unwaged) or 2 years for £39.00

Overseas individuals: £26

Institutions: £36.

Sample copies and back issues are available at a price (including postage) of £4.00 each (U.K. & E.C.; £5.00 overseas.)

Sets of back issues:  Vols 1-5, Vols 6-10, Vols 11-15: special price of £60.00 per 5 volume set.

To subscribe, please go to ordering information or online ordering. No extra postage is due for subscriptions or back issues.

Subscriptions can now be dealt with (in US Dollars) via:

Peter Bane, The Permaculture Activist, P O Box 1209, Black Mountain, NC 28711, USA.

Tel: (704) 298-2812. Fax: (704) 298-6441. Email: pcactivist@mindspring.com    Web: www.permacultureactivist.net

Index to Volumes 1 -15: A full index to Volumes 1 to 15 (A4) is available for £3.00.

• Vol 1, No 1: Apple rootstocks, the Medlar, Seed: collection, Persian walnut (1), Zanthoxylum spp, The alder.
  
• Vol 1, No 2: Seed: extraction & storage, Mulberries, Oregon grape, Forest gardening: design, Apples: disease resistance, Wild service tree, Persian walnut (2).
  
• Vol 1, No 3: Persian walnut (3), Hedges, Apples in agroforestry, Juniper, Durable timbers, Juneberries, Seed pre-treatments.
  
• Vol 1, No 4: Actinidia arguta, Small leaved lime, Persian walnut (4), Forest gardening: tree crops, Bamboos, Seed: sowing.
  
• Vol 2, No 1: Monkey puzzle, Blackcurrants, Sea buckthorn, Forest gardening: Clearings, Grafténg overview, Silver Birch.
  
• Vol 2, No 2: Gaultherias, Hazel (1), Pawpaw, Beech, Ground covers (1), Grafting - rootstocks.
  
• Vol 2, No 3: Hazel (2), Ground covers (2), Grafting - common methods, Edible tree saps, Plums - outline, The black locust.
  
• Vol 2, No 4: Wych elm, Lemon substitutes, Cherry plum, Hazel cultivars, Plum yews, Forest gardening: mulches.
  
• Vol 3, No 1: Sycamore, Plum rootstocks, Forest gardening: shrub crops, Index to Vols. 1 & 2, Nut pines, Grafting: hot grafting pipe/low-tech grafting.
  
• Vol 3, No 2: The barberries (Berberis spp), New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), Forest gardening: edges, Ginkgo biloba: the maidenhair tree, Grafting established trees, Plum cultivation, Rowan.
  
• Vol 3, No 3: Plum cultivars, Poncirus trifoliata; Fertility in agroforestry and forest gardens special: Overview of soil fertility, Nitrogen, Nitrogen-fixing plants, Potassium, Phosphorus, Soil pH and Calcium.
  
• Vol 3, No 4: Greenwood tip grafting, Forest gardening: succession, Chestnuts (1), Bamboos: cultivation and management, Arbutus unedo: the strawberry tree, The honey locust: Gleditsia triacanthos, Bullaces Damsons and Mirabelles, Growing apples from pips.
  
• Vol 4, No 1: Chestnuts special: cultivation for nuts. Covers all aspects of chestnut cultivation, including extensive cultivar list.
  
• Vol 4, No 2: Redcurrants, Veneer grafting, Plums - minor species, The yew, chestnut hybrids.
  
• Vol 4, No 3: Soap plants, Elaeagnus, Pear rootstocks, Diospyros virginiana - the American persimmon.
  
• Vol 4, No 4: Diospyros lotus - the date plum, Pears: cultivation & varieties, Mycorrhizas, Black walnut - silviculture.
  
• Vol 5, No 1: Black walnut - uses, Plants and climate change in Britain, Forest gardening: climbers, hardy Citrus, Perry pears, Asian pears.
  
• Vol 5, No 2: Ash, Black walnut - nut cultivation, Forest gardening: root & bulb crops, kaki persimmon, cherries - species descriptions.
  
• Vol 5, No 3: Cherry silviculture, forest farming ginseng, cherry rootstocks, gooseberries.
  
• Vol 5, No 4: Edible acorns from oaks, Sour cherries, Sweet & Duke cherries, Forest gardening: Fungi.
  
• Vol 6, No 1: Forest gardening: Ground cover polycultures, the bayberries, Basketry willows, The hickories, Fireblight.
  
• Vol 6, No 2: The elder, Quince, Cornelian cherry, Large-leaved lime, Canker of apple & pear, Sorbus domestica.
  
• Vol 6 No 3: Agroforestry overview: silvopasture, silvoarable, forest farming, forest gardening; Softwood cuttings, Figs, Codling moth.
  
• Vol 6 No 4: Forest gardening: Perennial leaf crops, Almonds, Scab of apple & pear, Greenwood cuttings.
  
• Vol 7 No 1: The butternut, Blackberries, Hardwood cuttings, Apple powdery mildew.
  

• Vol 7 No 2: Bacterial canker, Layering (1), Bamboo agroforestry, the Heartnut, Medicinal plants overview, Forest gardening: polycultures and matrix planting.

• Vol 7 No 3: Edible hawthorns, Medicinal plant cultivation, Layering (2), Brown rot, Raspberries.

• Vol 7 No 4: Cornus species, Root cuttings, Forest Gardening: annuals, Honey fungus, Medicinal plant processing, Beneficial insects in orchards, The yellowhorn.
  
• Vol 8 No 1: Hovenia dulcis, Division, Pollinating insects in orchards, Blueberries, Red alder, Vine weevil.
  
• Vol 8 No 2: Poultry in tree pasture, Rhus species, Silverleaf, Winter maintenance, Torreya species, Medicinal tree crops.
  
• Vol 8 No 3: Medicinal shrub crops, Spring maintenance, Grey mold, Grapes.

• Vol 8 No 4: Medicinal perennial crops (1), Cudrania tricuspidata - Chinese mulberry, Caragana arborescens - Siberian pea tree, Forest gardening: summer maintenance, Poplars.