Your Edible Yard: Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

Transform your yard into a beautiful and vibrant space offering a continuous supply of food

Has the potential to change the landscaping of our nation and the design of our lives.
¿ ROB GREENFIELD, author, Dude Making a Difference

A beautiful synthesis of organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices for an abundant yard anywhere.
¿ MATT POWERS, author and educator, ThePermacultureStudent.com

Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. Illustrated throughout with dozens of beautiful color photographs, water color planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, it covers:

• Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds
• Permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives
• How to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles
• Gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget
• Instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines
• General tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards.

Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for growing an abundant edible landscape.

A timely, clear, inspiring, and valuable resource for anyone interested in the why and how of getting started in transitioning your yard from lawn to edible garden.
¿ ZEN HONEYCUTT, founding executive director, Moms Across America, author, Unstoppable

Crystal Stevens is an artist, folk herbalist, regenerative farmer, permaculturist, and author of the award-winning Grow Create Inspire and Worms at Work. She lives with her husband and two children on a 10-acre permaculture-inspired micro-farm along the rolling hills
of the Mississippi River.