Mark Diacono on Martin Crawford, the man who has inspired him for decades.
Twenty years ago, an acquaintance said I might be interested in ‘this chap who’s planting like a forest, only it’s food’. I scoured the internet, I tracked him down, and persuaded him to let me visit. The subsequent day I spent with Martin Crawford caused a complete turn in my kitchen-garden mindset.
This, he explained, was a forest garden. Rather than follow the traditional…
