In "The Celestial Garden", Jane Hawley Stevens reveals how gardening timed to the rhythms of the celestial bodies helps plants, and gardeners, to thrive. Stevens’s inspiring, practical book uses a potent mix of ancient wisdom, modern... Read More

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More

"Raising Resilient Bees" challenges accepted practices in commercial beekeeping, based on decades of experience on an organic farm. Advocates of stewarding bees with minimal disturbance to the hive, Eric and Joy McEwen argue that... Read More

"Sown in the Stars" surveys the revered practice of planting, farming, and harvesting by the phases of the moon and positions of the zodiac. Centered in Appalachia, the book includes interviews with various rural Kentucky residents who... Read More

British journalist Angela Youngman considers opportunities for reuse and repair in outdoor spaces in "Recycling in the Garden". This idea book for the modern gardener covers areas in which hobbyists and those with more land might work... Read More

Maria Rodale’s "Love, Nature, Magic" is an intriguing essay collection about shamanic communication with animals and plants in a garden. An avid gardener, Rodale found herself wondering what some of the unwanted species found in her... Read More

Dani Baker is the dreamer and planner behind the Enchanted Edible Forest, three acres in New York that were cultivated over a decade to grow more organic, edible plants. "The Home-Scale Forest Garden" brings these permaculture gardening... Read More

"Winterland" is full of design advice for gardeners, meant to inspire them even beyond the growing season. Gardeners in northern climates know that the joy of summer represents a fraction of the year; accordingly, thought should be given... Read More