Links
Agroforestry, fruits & nuts
The Edible forest gardens is a site devoted to forest gardening.
California Rare Fruit Growers - useful links covering both temperate and tropical fruits. They also produce an excellent magazine.
Northern Nut Growers Association - excellent source of info on temperate nut species, they produce an excellent journal.
FACT Network (formerly Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association)
Plants for a Future - their online useful plants database is very impressive.
The "Confrérie des Planteurs de Fruitiers
Rares" is a primarily French group devoted to growing rare fruiting
plants growing (including wild fruits and ornamentals with edible fruits).
Their web site is in French and English.
Temperate Agroforestry
Forum
Tree Crops Centre - Australian site with lots of info on fruits, mostly tropical. Connected to Granny Smiths Bookshop which holds an excellent selection of land-use-connected books.
The Fukuoka website has lots of information about Masanoba Fukuoka's farming methods.
Orange pippin is a website which is dedicated to describing the flavours of apples and the origins of different apple varieties.
Other organisations
National School of Forestry at Cumbria Campus, University of Central Lancashire.
Sustain (formerly the SAFE alliance)
Trees for Health is a voluntarily run organisation in south Devon aiming to foster healthy communities and healthy ecosystems by revitalising our use and knowledge of woodland.
Reforesting
Scotland - Restoring the land and communities of Scotland through
reforestation
Semilla
Besada - a research conservation farm situated at 1300m in southern Spain,
using Holistic Management(TM), for the first time in europe, to work towards
social, economic and environmental sustainability. Residential seminars, eco-accomodation,
local environmental services and vounteering opportunities are available. See
the website at http://www.holisticdecisions.com
Earthlinks links up
projects across the world
Useful publications & news groups
Temperate Agroforestry News group
Send message "Subscribe AFTA yourname" to
listproc@lists.missouri.edu
The Permaculture Activist is North America's premier magazine devoted to Permaculture, including lots of good articles on plants.
Treefinders publish tree books and link to many other interesting tree organisations
The PLANTNEWS website http://www.plantnews.co.uk
contains the latest plant and environmental news, from a diverse range of
sources (scientific, horticultural, agricultural etc.).
www.permaculture.tv is an Australian
permaculture site with good features.
The Northern Pomona is a new book describing 100 old traditional varieties of apple grown in orchards in the north of Britain.
Other seed and plant sellers
Common name index at B & T World Seeds (B & T have lots of other interesting information on their site. The common name index lists 25,000 common names.)
Keepers Nursery - The Keepers Nursery website includes a database of information on over 800 temperate fruit and nut cultivars. Keepers Nursery offer over 600 varieties of temperate fruit for sale in the UK.
Brogdale - home of the UK National fruit collections.
Plant breeding & other contacts
Lars Westergaard - is involved in breeding cold-hardy nut crops (chestnut, walnut, hazelnut) in Denmark
Burkhard Kayser is a Permaculture and agroforestry consultant in Germany
Plant Oils WWW Resources ( http://www.castoroil.in/reference/plant_oils/plant_oils.html ) is a useful reference point for information about all aspects of plant oils and their uses.
Rawnsley Woodland Products, based
in Cornwall, are a superb source of FSC certified sustainable timber, especially
cladding, shingles etc. for wooden buildings.
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