In my blog post about my visit to Balser Tree Farm near Mt. Vernon, WA (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3628), we met Donald Balser’s wife, Jane, and she showed me a wonderful classic book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith. David Holmgren explains the significance of this book to permaculture in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gOr7AzUUU
It turns out that the book is freely available electronically for download and it’s encouraged to spread it, so here it is for anyone to download:
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