Harvest year-round from your bountiful and sustainable fruit and vegetable garden. Huw Richards' ultimate guide to permaculture gardening, outlining the regenerative methods that make gardening easier to do while being more productive. Huw shows you how to expand your growing...

"A useful and a wonderful resource whether you grow on a balcony, rooftop or in the ground." --Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden Supply Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as organic gardeners discover the wisdom of a...

The first in-depth guide for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland and are looking for productive, innovative ways to create a natural forest ecosystems that produces a wide range of food, medicinals, and other non-timber products. "What a joy to...

Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended-in layers.

ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: Home & Garden American Horticultural Society Book Award This illustrated gardening handbook offers sound vegetable gardening advice for growing over 100 low maintenance species throughout the season and delicious...

Perfect for any aspiring backyard gardeners, this book offers a doable, incremental program for turning any yard into a primary food source with vegetables, fruits, chickens, pollinator plants, and medicinal herbs. Today's gardeners want a bit of everything-...

In this vivid and engaging work, Eric Toensmeier entices us with his journey as an example, explaining what to do, and what mistakes to avoid, to develop our own versions of an edible urban paradise."--Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden When Eric Toensmeier and...

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetables, from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants. Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Whereas traditional vegetable...

A guide to creating and growing a backyard kitchen garden simply and sustainably--from planning to planting to harvest, with profiles of essential vegetables and herbs, ecological tips, and fun and creative projects Growing food in your backyard (or through...

Discover the benefits of companion planting with this comprehensive guidebook. Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for the ever-popular growing technique of companion planting, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant...

Go back to basics--compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more--with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold). Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent...

From the bestselling author of The Market Gardener - key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scale Microfarms is a guide to setting up and running profitable small-scale vegetable farms using organic,...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace...

An award-winning author's powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America's food system It's well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorities of nutrition and environmental stability in the pursuit of profit--a model...

Go Forth and Forage is a North American mushroom foraging guide with identification, harvesting, and preparation instructions for over 50 edible and medicinal mushrooms.

An accessible exploration of how herbs can be used for medicinal and culinary purposes year round, from gardening to cooking--you'll learn how to use herbs in a myriad of life-changing ways. Herbs in Every Season offers gardeners, herbalists, cooks, and...

2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St....

The ultimate resource for growers interested in no-till market gardening, sustainable agriculture principles, and farm-tested practices for healthier, more productive soil From the host of the popular The No-Till Market Garden Podcast--heard around the world with nearly one...

Discover a high-style approach to vegetable gardening from award-winning landscape designer Christian Douglas.   What if, instead of relegating our vegetable patch to a remote corner of the backyard, we brought it forward? What if we...

The beautifully illustrated Held by the Land guides you through the traditional uses and properties of a selection of indigenous plants.

From Freddie Bitsoie, the executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award-winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone...

Revised and updated, this all-in-one guide designed for northern-tier gardeners from coast to coast features: * more than 2,000 varieties proven to thrive in cold climates* five-star ratings to help you choose top-performing perennials * new selections of varieties with...

The benefits of foraging for food are far and wide. Whether you're looking for ways to become more self-sufficient, save money, or develop healthier habits, this guide is an extensive on-the-go directory of more than 100 profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and...

This on-the-go guide is perfect for new foragers eager to learn about the edible plants they're most likely to find, no matter what region they're in, and provides photos and easy-to-follow identification and use guidelines for the 40 most common--and most delicious--wild plants. ...

"Part essay collection, part gardening guide, The Heirloom Gardener encourages readers to embrace heirloom seeds and traditions, serving as a well-needed reminder to slow down and reconnect with nature." --Modern Farmer Modern life is a...

Learn how to make flavorful fermented foods--from wild edibles!--with this fermentation cookbook featuring 100+ plant-based recipes for krauts and kimchis, brines, cheeses, and more. "I am in awe of this book"―Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

From the foremost authority on gardening in North America comes the American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening, a comprehensive reference book about growing perennial plants.

Travel through a garden's seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness--for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth   In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and...

A handy illustrated collection of tried and true techniques to fill your cupboards with wholesome, homemade food-and save money, too. Internet sensation Kris Bordessa shows how to replace storebought, processed products with your own delicious, nutritious entrees, side dishes,...

Within this comprehensive reference book lie the secrets to keeping your garden beautiful despite the elements, with design and planting concepts for prolonged wintry conditions. Winner of the American Horticultural Society 2025 Book Award ...

Growing your own medicine is empowering--learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams. Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aid in sleep or digestion, help to heal injuries, change blood pressure, reverse inflammation, soothe a...

Master the techniques for making sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, and other savory, probiotic-rich foods in your own kitchen.This easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide presents more than 120 recipes for fermenting 64 different vegetables and herbs. Learn the basics, and then refine your technique...

Recipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future--for food, farming, and humankind Knowing how and where food is grown can add depth and richness to a dish, whether a meal of slow-roasted short ribs on...

Learn how to transform your yard into a beautiful landscape using native plants! You don't have to compromise beauty for natural landscapes with ecological responsibility and sustainability. In master gardener Lynn Steiner's book Grow Native, you'll find guidance for planting...

Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time,...

"The wonder of woodland gardening is that it looks like plants grow themselves there. After reading this book, gardeners can make that happen." --Publishers Weekly Woodlands are magical places and even small gardens can capture the atmosphere with carefully chosen trees...

A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Homeowners spend billions of hours-and dollars-watering, mowing, and...

Packed with delicious recipes, natural remedies, gardening know-how, homesteading advice, and more, this indispensable lifestyle reference makes earth-friendly, off-the-grid living approachable and fulfilling. Whether you live in a city, suburb, or the country, this essential...

Winner of Two IACP Awards Food Issues & Matters * Health & Nutrition This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and...

Explore the natural history, ecological contributions, and cultural significance of manoomin (wild rice), and savor complementary wild foods and local flavors with more than seventy-five inspired recipes, including favorites from over a dozen Indigenous cooks from various nations. ...

Ready for new 10 new practical ideas for creating yourbackyard homestead? 50 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: AHands-On, Step-By-Step Sustainable-Living Guide updates one of the most popularbooks on the subject with the addition of 10 new projects to help yourhomestead thrive....