{"id":237,"date":"2014-11-19T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2014-11-21T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:42:01","slug":"now-shipping-the-book-and-special-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"around-the-world-front-cover\"<\/a>Around The World in 80 Plants : An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates<\/strong>, by Stephen Barstow<\/p>\n

What has underground gardening in Tokyo, the origin of garlic and an English bishop got in common? They are all stories from the original, groundbreaking book, Around The World In 80 Plants<\/em>. Perennial gardening will never be the same again, nor will be your kitchen repertoire!<\/p>\n

Around The World In 80 Plants <\/em>takes us on an inspiring edible adventure across the continents, introducing us to the author\u2019s top 80 perennial vegetables, with inspiration along the way from local foraging traditions and small scale domestication. Each plant has its own ethnobotanical story to tell; introducing Sherpa vegetables of the Himalayas; forest gardened and foraged vegetables of the S\u00e1mi people of Arctic Scandinavia; a super-vegetable of the Maori of New Zealand;\u00a0an onion with a 1,000 year history linking the author\u2019s home and Iceland ; a plant which earned the name \u2018supermarket of the swamps\u2019; the traditional veggie roof gardens of Norway; clifftop perennial vegetables of Dorset\u2019s Jurassic coast; the Hampshire perennial vegetable triangle; Scandinavias best kept secret, a long-lived spinach that climbs; Prince Charles\u2019 Forest Garden, and inspiring multi-species dishes of the Mediterranean countries.<\/p>\n

A thorough description is given of each vegetable, its propagation, cultivation and uses, and also how to source seed and plants. As many of the author\u2019s selections are what he calls \u2018edimentals\u2019 \u2013 edible and ornamental \u2013Around the World in 80 Plants <\/em>will be of interest to traditional ornamental gardeners as well as anyone interested in permaculture, forest gardening, foraging, slow-food, gourmet cooking, traditional preservation techniques and ethnobotany.<\/p>\n

Stephen\u00a0has devoted over 30 years trialling the world\u2019s perennial vegetables. He grows more than 2,000 edible plants in his garden close to the Arctic Circle in Norway, and in 2003 earned the title \u2018Extreme Salad Man\u2019 after creating a salad using 537 varieties, inspired by multi-species Mediterranean dishes! Sprinkled with recipes inspired by local traditional gastronomy, this is a fascinating book, an entertaining adventure and a real milestone in climate-friendly vegetable growing from a pioneering expert on the subject.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Foreword by Alys Fowler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Around the World in 80 Plants is more than just excellent profiles of little-known delicious vegetable crops. Stephen Barstow is one of the world\u2019s great edible plant collectors and his stories of encountering plants in the wild, tracking down seeds of rare species, and of course growing and cooking with these species are absolute treasure. Many plant books just rehash information already written in other sources.\u00a0 <\/em>Around the World in 80 Plants is delightfully marinated in personal experience. It will make you not only want to grow and eat these crops, but to travel to Siberia, Norway, and Chile to know them in their natural habitat. ”
\n<\/em>Eric Toensmeier, award-winning author of Paradise Lot and Perennial Vegetables<\/em>, and the co-author of Edible Forest Gardens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Stephen Barstow presents fascinating and useful information about his top 80 perennial leafy vegetables including lots of historical references, his and others\u2019 recipe ideas, along with photos and more. Many of these are easily grown and can be ornamental as well as great edibles. This will be a really useful book helping extend the range of food plants for gardeners.” \u00a0<\/em>Martin Crawford, Agroforestry Research Trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should prove to be the most exciting book of the year for veggie gardeners, plant geeks and ethnobotanists\u2026<\/em>\u201d Emma Cooper, author, organic gardener & blogger<\/p>\n

Buy it now<\/a> (\u00a319.95<\/del> – Special price : \u00a314.96 ! )<\/p>\n

Learn more about the author<\/a><\/p>\n

To Be Published : October 2014
\nISBN : 978-1-85623-141-1
\nSize : 240 x 170mm
\nFormat : Paperback, 304pp. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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