Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they've worked out the perfect formula. Grow five portions of nutritious veg a day for four people following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind.

- Learn about Huw and Sam's self-sufficiency ethos, goals and approaches
- Create your garden and learn how to build all the growing spaces you will need, such as hot beds and polytunnels
- Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year
- Discover useful kitchen tips meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops

Follow Huw and Sam's tried-and-tested methods and save money while enjoying homegrown food all year.

As Kevin has proven--thanks to his enthusiasm and willingness to experiment--there's no need to go back to the land, live off-grid, and leave behind modern conveniences to improve your self-sufficiency and autonomy. Anyone can do it.

Follow in Kevin's footsteps with this accessible, beginner-friendly guide to embracing today's technology to grow and preserve food, raise mini livestock like bees and chickens, set up automated systems like irrigation and greywater recycling, and so much more.

The high-tech homesteading concepts and projects introduced in Epic Homesteading show you that, wherever you are in the world--city, country, or suburbia--homesteading is for YOU!

Learn how to:

• Use solar power
• Automate rainwater catchment and distribution
• Set up your food-growing spaces, outdoors and in
• Plant and care for a small orchard, including pest management
• Cultivate microgreens and sprouts
• Keep bees, chickens, and quail
• Use laundry and shower greywater in the garden
• Preserve food
• Seek out and utilize free resources
• Maximize energy efficiency through a mini-split system, smart lighting, and timers

Learn how to make an epic homestead of your own and, as Kevin likes to say, Keep on Growing! For more small-space gardening advice from Kevin, check out his other books, Field Guide to Urban Gardening and Grow Bag Gardening.

Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement.--Paul Stamets

The classic book about ecological gardening--whatever size your garden--with over 250,000 copies sold!

A great book!--Men's Journal

Gaia's Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening--which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants--can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easy--even for the beginner--to create a backyard ecosystem by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:

• Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
• Catching and conserving water in the landscape
• Providing a rewilded and biodiverse habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
• Growing an edible forest that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods

This revised and updated edition also features a chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it's established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that's needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.

51% of people say they'd be willing to pay more for foods that have a less damaging impact on the environment... but what if you didn't have to? What if the answer to a more ethical and sustainable life was right in your backyard?

Perhaps you thought your backyard was too small for growing vegetables. Perhaps you thought you lacked the knowledge and skills to grow delicious organic produce in your own garden.

The truth is, humans have been growing food for over 20,000 years. We are adept at this, and no space is too small.

Imagine being able to guarantee that everything on your plate was chemical-free and homegrown.

Imagine enjoying produce that you picked fresh just minutes before you cooked it.

Imagine knowing that your family was getting the best nutrient content possible from everything they ate.

Sound time consuming and labor intensive? It doesn't have to be.

In The Backyard Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Self Sufficient Mini Farming, you'll learn everything you need to get started on your journey towards full self sufficiency. You'll discover:

• How to turn even the smallest space into a bountiful farm
• A bulletproof approach to designing your garden for maximum yield
• The 8 key principles of biointensive farming - and why it will change your life
• Everything you need to know for vegetable-growing success
• Top secrets for growing fruit in every size of garden
• Why your new gardening buddy should be a chicken
• A realistic way to rear your own animals for meat with zero experience
• A 12-month plan for your garden
• Organic pest control secrets
• Tricks to make your garden do most of the work for you

And much more.

Many of us wish we knew more about where our food came from, so why aren't more of us growing our own?

Home food production doesn't have to be complicated. It isn't expensive, and it doesn't require acres of land. With just a little understanding of what you need to get started, you can begin a healthier, more sustainable, and more fulfilling life.

Over 75% of packaged food in the USA contains genetically modified organisms. Imagine being confident that you would never have to feed them to your children again.

A compelling call to change the way we think about gardening and growing food, Nettles and Petals by ecological horticulturist and social media sensation Jamie Walton is the only guide you need to make your garden more sustainable.

Full of inviting imagery and essential information, this accessible guide provides a holistic and ecological approach to gardening and vegetable growing. With a focus on biodiversity, soil health, and the creation of balanced ecosystems, Nettles and Petals is a must-read for any budding gardener.

Join Jamie and the @NettlesAndPetals community on their mission to save the wild plants we often attempt to eradicate from our gardens and learn how to begin growing them in your spaces in a practical way.

Dig into must-know topics including:

• Companion planting
• The wonders of nettles and other weeds
• The importance of flowers in the vegetable garden
• Circular and ecological garden planning
• Growing guides for Jamie's 'top 30' vegetables
• Seed saving and sowing
• Urban and small-scale sustainable gardening
• Harvesting, preserving, and sharing produce

An ideal self-purchase or a gift for the green enthusiast in your life, Nettles and Petals is perfect for anyone curious about gardening sustainably.

The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called mycelium--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium's digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening).

In this comprehensive guide, you'll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined mycorestoration, as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for bemushroomed generations to come.

This extensively revised new edition of his Complete Gardener, first published in 2003, brings you right up-to-date on how Monty gardens today - and his recommendations for you.

The most comprehensive, practical, and highly illustrated book Monty has ever written, it covers what he believes are the most important aspects of gardening. Organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, but this new edition picks up on another key principle: the need to provide habitats in your garden for local wildlife.

Over half of the photographs in this new edition will be new, taken over a year in his Long Meadow garden, and he is going through the text with a fine-tooth comb to ensure everything he says reflects his latest approach.

Did you know tomatoes produce a natural insecticide that can help protect carrots against pests? Or that planting mint near lettuce can repel slugs? Every gardener knows that the key to an abundant harvest in their vegetable garden is controlling pests and disease, while still maintaining a healthy growing environment. But it is possible to have a healthy, thriving vegetable garden without using dangerous chemicals? It is, as long as you know how to pair up the right plants. Organic gardeners have known for years that planting the right plants together is the key to minimizing pests, improving soil quality, and increasing the yield of their gardens, and almost any vegetable you can grow likely has a beneficial companion. Companion planting is the ideal way to avoid using chemicals, while still increasing the efficiency of your garden. Expert organic gardener Brian Lowell will teach you how to use plants to create a beautiful, vibrant vegetable garden that will be free of toxic chemicals.

Here's what you'll find inside:

Eliot is the reason I'm cooking. . . . I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons.--Dan Barber, chef

There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman.--Civil Eats

Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food--garden fresh and chemical free--all year long, with little effort or expense.

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.

Inside, you'll also learn:

• Composting techniques
• Simple Mineral Amendments
• Planning and preparing your garden site
• Seeds for four seasons
• How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses
• How to cope with snow
• How to create a root cellar and other storage techniques
• And much, much more!

Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.

This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman.--The Atlantic

To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com.

The 2025 Maria Thun Biodynamic Almanac adapted for North American (EST) times. The original, and still the best, biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, trusted by farmers and gardeners for over 60 years.

The simple, two-week-to-view layout features detailed planting, tending and harvesting information to help both seasoned biodynamic farmers and beginner gardeners maximise the yield and vitality of crops and plants. Trusted by generations of growers, the ultimate biodynamic almanac features:

• An easy-to-view layout making it simple to plan what to do and when
• Space to add your own notes
• Clear headings and sections for fast look-ups
• A lay-flat spine makes it easy to consult the Almanac, keep your place and add notes
• Information on solar and lunar events and planetary aspects
• A pull-out wallchart that can be pinned up in a barn, shed or greenhouse as a handy quick reference
• Eco-friendly printing with recycled FSC paper using plant-based inks

Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world. --Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Individuals can't save the world alone. But if millions of us work together to save our own patch of earth--then we really have a shot. How do we do it? With Acts of Restorative Kindness (ARK). An ARK is a restored, native ecosystem. It's a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that have been allowed and supported to re-establish in the earth's intelligent, successional process of natural restoration. Over time, this becomes a pantry and a habitat for our pollinators and wild creatures who are in desperate need of support.

These ARKs will become the seeding grounds for our planet's new story. They will be sanctuaries for our shared kin--the rooted and unrooted--and safe havens for the magic and abundance of the natural world. Most importantly, the ARK-building actions are within our control and laid out here in We Are the ARK. In these inspiring pages, discover how one person's actions can effect big change in this world. Even the tiniest postage stamp patch of land matters! Together we are building a patchwork quilt of life that will wrap its way around this planet.

A beginners guide to landscape transformation. Transform your landscape into an easy, abundant, beautiful, home paradise. Have your easiest and most productive garden ever. And do it without poisons, plastics or petroleum products.

The secret to an easy, abundant garden is creating a healthy ecosystem to support it! Instead of fighting nature, we can recruit nature to provide fertility, do weeding for us, prevent pests and diseases, and even help water the garden.

This book is filled with projects that will teach you to be an expert gardener and Permaculturist while you transform you landscape.

• Planes de siembra en los que se detalla cuándo abonar y qué plantar o sembrar dependiendo del mes y la estación del año.
• Instrucciones sobre cómo crear tu huerto y los materiales necesarios para poder cultivar en casa: túneles de polietileno, camas elevadas y absorbentes, bancos para macetas, compost...
• Útiles consejos para cocinar y para la conservación de alimentos que te ayudarán a aprovechar al máximo tus cultivos.
• Recetas de platos deliciosos que podrás incluir en tu menú semanal: curry, verduras al horno, ensaladas y aderezos

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Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency.

Whether you are looking for cost-effective ways to put food on the table and feed your family, a fan of Huw's YouTube videos and would like to try out the recipes for yourself, or a gardener who would like some guidance on how to grow your own food, this book will be great for you.

With this gardening book, you will be able to:

• Learn about Huw's self-sufficiency ethos, goals, and approaches to growing food
• Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year and different seasons
• Discover helpful kitchen tips for meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops.
• Find recipes for delicious dishes including soup, curry, tray bakes and salads + dressings

Revitalize your garden--and go beyond compost--by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost

In The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments, experimental gardener and author Nigel Palmer provides practical, detailed instructions that are accessible to every grower who wants to achieve a truly sustainable garden ecosystem--all while enjoying better results at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizer products. These recipes go beyond fertilizer replacement, resulting in greater soil biological activity and mineral availability. They also increase pest and disease resistance, yields, and nutrient density.

Recipes include:

• Extracting nutrients from plant residues using simple rainwater techniques
• Extracting minerals from bones and shells using vinegar
• Fermenting plant juices and fish
• Culturing indigenous microorganisms (IMO)

Inspired by the work of many innovative traditional agricultural pioneers, especially Cho Ju-Young (founder of the Korean Natural Farming method), The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments also includes a primer on plant-soil interaction, instructions for conducting a soil test, and guidance on compost, cover cropping, mulching, measuring the quality of fruits and vegetables using a refractometer, and other aspects of sustainable gardening--making it a must-have resource for any serious grower.

A breakthrough book. No comprehensive horticultural library should be without it. --American Gardener

When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle, and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You'll discover that healthy soil is teeming with life--not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms.

This must-have guide is for everyone, from those devoted to organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy plants without resorting to chemicals.

Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution.--Michael Pollan

Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener.--Martha Stewart

With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Eliot Coleman's hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from Coleman's The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.

Inside, you'll find Coleman's clear, concise, and meticulous details [including many accompanying illustrations] on:

• Greenhouse construction and maintenance
• Planting schedules
• Crop management
• Harvesting practices
• Marketing methods

Coleman's painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons.

A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it just can't be done.

The incomparable Eliot Coleman is back.--The New York Times

A Renaissance man for a new generation.--Dan Barber

Discover how to work with nature, instead of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to create a garden that is not just more beautiful and productive, but also more resilient.

While the word permaculture might sound intimidating, the principals behind it are not. The main goal of permaculture is to turn your space into a functioning ecosystem that's less reliant on external resources and better able to sustain itself through many seasons of growth and change as it resists pests, diseases, and climate extremes. Whatever the size of your space, from a tiny patio garden to a big backyard, and whether you grow food, flowers, shrubs, trees, or a combination of all, The Regenerative Garden is here to help you become a better, more eco-conscious gardener.

Through 80 DIY projects, author Stephanie Rose of the popular website Garden Therapy introduces you to basic backyard permaculture concepts in an easy-to-follow, logical way. Each of the six chapters represents a living element of the garden, capable of playing a valuable role in its constant regeneration, including soil, water, plants, climate, ethics, and community. As you check these projects off your to-do list, you'll find you've reduced your long-term work load, conserved water and other resources, turned your yard into a habitat for wildlife, and learned to grow perennial foods in creative ways.

The 80 featured projects include step-by-step instructions on how to:

• Employ intensive planting to reduce weeding and watering chores
• Use living mulches to amend the soil
• Build self-watering planters and wicking beds to reduce water use
• Install a rain garden to catch runoff
• Plant a wildlife hedge to support creatures and create a windbreak and noise buffer
• Compost projects and systems to repurpose waste on-site
• Make a butterfly migration station to support pollinators of all sorts

A healthy, organic, regenerative garden is a perfect example of a self-sustaining ecosystem; everything works in tandem, is intricately connected, and comes full circle to create its own never-ending cycle of life.

**A SUNDAY TIMES GARDENING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**

'A must-read for every gardener who wants to up their game for wildlife and do their bit for the planet.' -- Isabella Tree

'A refreshing, uplifting and positive look at the true value of a garden.' -- Alan Titchmarsh

The perfect book for any gardener looking to get back in touch with their wild side.

The rewilding of public spaces and farmland is vitally important to conservation, but how can we support native species and provide rich habitats on our own doorsteps?

In this practical, beautifully illustrated guide horticulturalist and Gardener's World presenter Frances Tophill shows you how to plan and maintain a beautiful garden that will attract bees and birds as well as a throng of unsung garden heroes. Whether you have a small balcony or a large open space, discover the joys of welcoming natural ecosystems back into your garden - along with a host of new visitors.

If you wish to live well and eat well no matter what is going on in the rest of the world, this book is for you. . . . Will Bonsall will help you enjoy the good life under any and all conditions.--Eliot Coleman, author of The New Organic Grower

Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries. Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place.

In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don't always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture.

For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture--not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: spend less instead of making more.

What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts--even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios).

Inside Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening you'll also find:

• Milling, baking and sprouting
• Freezing and vermentation
• Best practices to handle plant disease and animal pests
• Collecting and storing seeds
• And so much more!

In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience.

My goal, he writes, is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning.