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About Us
Plants For A Future is a resource centre for rare and unusual plants,
particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. We
practise vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an
ecologically sustainable environment based largely on perennial plants.
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About Plants
Just twenty plants provide the majority of food eaten, yet there are thousands of other
useful plants which have not reached mainstream attention. You can find details
of many of them here.
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About Gardening
We advocate a style of gardening mimicking a natural woodland system using
perennial plants and following vegan organic and ecological principals
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Plant Database
You can search our database of 7300 edible medicinal and useful plants.
If you want to use the database at home without using the internet then
you can download a copy or get it on CD-ROM for a small donation to the project.
(common or botanical name or family, can use a fragment of a name if unsure of spelling)
(Plant uses and habitats. Full list of keywords.)
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Mirrors: UK,
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About Our Sites
We practise our principles on two sites; both are nature paradises with developing woodlands.
- The Field in Cornwall, the project's original 20 acre site
where 1,400 different species have been planted
and we have a twelve year old woodland garden.
- Blagdon Cross, our 84 acre North Devon site.
Due to financial and other problems, we are now having to sell this site.
- Volunteering please see Cornwall site for volunteering info.
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The Book
The Plants For A Future book covers 100s of useful plants. This pioneering
book takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.
More about the book
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Join Us
We
run a membership scheme called Friends of PFAF. Become one of them and
help our project grow and you will also receive regular updates and
occasional newsletters packed with articles.
Become a Friend
You can also join our email list where regular updates about Plants for a Future,
news items and discussions of useful plants can be found.
yahoo email list
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News and Events
Open Day - August 26th 2006, At The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
Tel 01208 873554. There are also work-parties at the Field each sunday leading upto the open day, and eack is followed by a music evening.
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Links
We have an extensive set of links to a wide range of website about plants, their uses, permaculture projects.
Links pages
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Other Stuff
There are many other goodies on the site:
- Awards and Citations - Many people
around the world from the AAAS to the Role Playing Guide to Herbs
have used our info.
- Translations: many of our articles have been translated into other languages.
 
 
 
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Permaculture.info
The permaculture.info
project is a spin off from Plants For A Futures database
and is a community driven open source project
allowing user contributed data on plants, permaculture and their relationships.
It incorporates data from Plants For A Future and other sources.
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All the information contained in these pages is Copyright
(C) Plants For A Future, 1996-2003.
Last modified: June 2004 (may well have been modified since!)
Plants For A Future is a charitable company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales.
Charity No. 1057719, Company No. 3204567,
HTML version prepared by Rich Morris
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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License. You
can copy, distribute, display this works but: Attribution is required,
its for Non-Commercial purposes, and it's Share Alike (GNUish/copyleft)
i.e. has an identical license. We also ask that you let us know (webmaster@pfaf.org) if
you link to, redistribute, make a derived work or do anything groovy with this information.
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