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About Us

Plants For A Future is a registered charity (No. 1057719) promoting and researching useful plants and sustainable methods of growing.

About Plants

There are 1000's of useful plants with a great variety of uses. We have selected some of our favorites:

About Gardening

We advocate a style of gardening mimicing a natural woodland system using perennial plants and following vegan organic and ecological principals

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 download a copy or get it on CD-ROM for a small donation to the project.

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About Our Sites

We practice our principals on two sites.

  • An Education Centre in Devon where we run a series of courses and are constructing a set of demonstration gardens
  • A Research Centre in Cornwall where we are growing 1,400 different species and have a twelve year old woodland garden.

 

The Book

The Plants For A Future book covers 100's of useful plants. This pioneering book takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.

Join Us

We run a membership scheme called Friends of PFAF. This year we seeking to recruit 1000 Friends. Become one of them and help our project grow.

 

News Events and Courses

We are planning a wide range of courses and events this summer which kick off with "Shaping The Future of Plants For A Future" a two day workshop on the 6/7th April for all those interested in helping PFAF fulfil its educational and research aims.

 

The Quiz

Have a go at the Plants For A Future quiz and gain a Plants For A Future basic training certificate.

 

Donations and Investment

You can help to fund the development of our Visitors Center

 

Other Stuff

Theres many other goodies on the site:

  • Latest News - read the latest info about the project
  • Events - we hope to get a wide range of courses and workshops running
  • Plant Catalogue - unfortunatly not running at the moment, but one day
  • Links Pages - thousands of links to sites around the world
  • Email list - join our forum for plant discussions.
  • More About Us - Find out about our history and our aims and ideals.
  • Awards and Citations - Many people around the world from the the AAAS to the Role Playing Guide to Herbs have used our info
  • Translations - Many of our articles have been translated into other languages