Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide to turn your yard into a beautiful, bountiful feast. With dozens of color photographs and watercolor illustrations, and landscaping designs for gardeners with any amount of space, it covers everything from design to harvesting instructions/recipes.

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.