{"id":3033,"date":"2008-09-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T08:44:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-01-01T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T02:26:12","slug":"plants-for-a-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/plants-for-a-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants for a Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s British bus driver Ken Fern went back to the land. Twenty-five years later he published the first edition of this now-revised compendium, a catalog and guide to a staggering number of mostly-perennial plants that can be harvested for food and other uses. Literally, thousands of seed, root, fruit, flower and leaf crops from a range of bulbs, trees, shrubs, climbers, bamboos, water plants and more. Beyond climatic needs and appearance, plants are described in terms of their taste and, often, highly-specific use (e.g. Asarum canadense. SNAKE ROOT: &#8220;a ginger substitute in flavouring cooked foods.&#8221;). The index is conveniently broken up into edible uses, like condiments and egg and salt substitutes, and non-edible uses, like basketry, disinfectant, and tooth care; For more, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100706041523\/http:\/\/www.pfaf.org\/leaflets\/other_uses.php\">100 Other Uses<\/a>. And actually, the Plants for a Future web site offers a searchable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pfaf\/D_search.html\">database<\/a> of 7,000 plants. While much of the info from the book is available online, the printed format can be easier to parse and digest. There are sections on &#8220;green manures&#8221; and how to mulch with cardboard boxes or newspaper and straw, as well as how to make a pond. Despite all the ideas and potential outlined in the book, the final chapter, &#8220;Future Possibilities,&#8221; truly emphasizes the magical allure of cultivation and experimentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide to edible &amp; useful foliage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28026,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/28026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}