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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.
Please read our important disclaimer, below. Use of this website implies your understanding and acceptance of the disclaimer.
The Plants For A Future charitable company has a new management team, and we are working on plans to redevelop the Plants For A Future website and database. Some of the information on this website about the organisation is out-of-date and misleading. The database continues to be available from this site.
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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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General disclaimer
To the best of our knowledge all the information contained herein is accurate and true.
However we cannot guarantee that everyone will react positively to all edible plants or other plant uses.
It is commonly known that many people suffer allergic reactions to conventional foods and products. Even amongst the more commonly eaten fruits, for example, there are plenty of instances where people react badly to them:
- Many people are allergic to strawberries and will come out in a rash if they eat them.
- Some people develop a rash if they touch the stems of parsnips.
- Potatoes become poisonous if they turn green.
- Eating large quantities of cabbage can adversely affect the thyroid gland.
In general, we believe that the overall health of people will be greatly improved by bringing more diversity into their diet and through using more natural products.
We strongly recommend the following preventative precautions when trying anything new:
- Make sure you have identified the plant correctly
- Try a small taste of anything new in your diet. If there are no side effects increase the quantity at the next meal.
- When trying new soaps or skin applications try them on a very small area before proceeding to larger areas of the body. Look for any uncomfortable reactions or changes and if there is do not proceed with further application.
No liability exists against Plants for a Future or any member of Plants for a Future, nor can they be held responsible for any allergy, illness or injurious effect that any person or animal may suffer as a result of information in this catalogue or through using any of the plants mentioned by Plants for a Future.
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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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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, the site has now been sold as a nature reserve.
- 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.
Become a Friend
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Mailing list
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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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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All the information contained in these pages is Copyright
(C) Plants For A Future, 1996-2008.
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 and to make derivative works but: Attribution is required, 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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