The significance of food and horti - forestry resources is on top of the agenda of all those who are concerned with food, nutrition and environmental issues. The book is an attempt to compile a wealth of information on food plant resources and temperate Horticulture and Forest plants of western Himalaya viz., manmade eco-system, agrobio- diversity and natural eco-system as store house of medicinal and aromatic plants, less known edible plants, flowers and wild relatives of crop plants. The uniqueness about this book is the vivid description of various crops under cultivation, land race and varieties in vogue in Bharsar region of Uttarakhand.