F OREST G ARDENING F OREST G ARDENING Rediscovering Nature & Community in a Post-Industrial Age R OBERT A de J H ART Revised & updated edition This revised edition first published in 1996 by Green Earth Books, an imprint of Green Books, Foxhole, Dartington Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EB Reprinted 2001 with a revised Foreword Reprinted 2009 (without colour plates) First published in ebook formats 2010 © 1991-2010 the estate of Robert A. de J. Hart All rights reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available on request Print format ISBN 978 1 900322 02 7 PDF format ISBN 978 1 907448 36 2 ePub format ISBN 978 1 907448 37 9 C ONTENTS Foreword by Herbert Girardet ix Prologue: The Mini-forest