The New Natural Food Garden: A Comprehensive Guide to Growing a Bountiful Harvest with Less Work, in Partnership with Nature (Paperback or Softback)

Grow an abundance of food with less work and more joywith this comprehensive, practical guide―whether you're a first-time gardener tending a few raised beds or a seasoned grower managing a large field.

Learn to observe, adapt, and make confident choices for your garden, climate, and lifestyle from organic gardening teachers with decades of experience. Featuring a warm, inviting writing style, easy-to-use charts and tables, and full-color photography. Inside, you’ll discover:

• Detailed step-by-step instructions that cover every step in the gardening process, from planning to harvesting. 
• 30+ vegetable profiles and growing guides for everything from tomatoes to winter squash, including pest management strategies and variety recommendations.
• Quick-reference tools including tables and charts for when to plant what, crop spacing, common cover crops, natural pest control methods, monthly tasks by region, and more.
• No-till techniques for nurturing healthy soil without digging, including over-cropping, solarization and tarping, sheet mulching, and more.
• Permaculture techniques for increasing yields, including mulching, companion planting, crop rotation, raised beds, container gardening, and agroecology.
• The "why" behind every technique so you can understand the principles and adapt them to your unique conditions, not just follow formulas.
• Real experience from real gardens, with honest assessments of different approaches based on trials across multiple climate zones.

Written by the founders of Growing Wise, the popular online gardening school, this book feels like learning from friends who've been exactly where you are.

Natalie Bogwalker and Chloe Lieberman are cofounders and codirectors of the Growing Wise gardening school, and Natalie is the founder of Wild Abundance, a school for permaculture, carpentry, and rewilding. Together they've taught gardening to thousands of students around the United States.