In The Climate-Wise Gardener, Jennie Cramer is your personal garden mentor—laying out a comprehensive guide to creating a climate-friendly, resilient, and abundant ecological garden.

For beginners and seasoned gardeners alike, The Climate-Wise Gardener offers a set of principles and practices for creating and maintaining a bountiful garden. It walks gardeners step by step through the most important techniques in ecological gardening, giving the reader the tools and knowledge to build a biodiverse landscape that is both resilient to a changing climate while also helping to slow the change itself. This practical book follows the rhythms of a garden year with comprehensive month-by-month guides on when to prune, divide, seed, plant, build soil, weed, and so on, and gives them the tools and techniques to do it in the most up-to-date, climate-wise methods.

Jennie brings her 30 years as an ecologist combined with two decades of horticultural experience to create an accessible framework and techniques to mimicking ecological patterns in the garden—designing a garden to work in accordance with nature, not against it. The Climate-Wise Gardener is as beautiful as it is educational: covering infrastructure and soil to herbs and vegetables, no-till gardening, cover crops, ornamental and edible perennials, cultivating natural areas for wildlife habitat and much more, all alongside gorgeous photography sure to inspire every reader.

The Climate-Wise Gardener is a must-have resource for anyone looking to create an abundant home garden as resilient as it is beautiful.

About The Author

Jennie Cramer has worked in the field of botanical and horticultural education for over 20 years. With a BS in Natural Resources from Cornell University and an MS from the University of Vermont’s famous Field Naturalist Program, Jennie shares her passion for all things botanical with students from ages 3 to 93. After a first career in ecological restoration and endangered species plant conservation biology with non-profit organizations including Ecology Project International, the Nature Conservancy, and the Oregon State University Small Farms Program, she was the first Director of Ecological Education at the Institute for Applied Ecology. 

Jennie has worked on organic and biodynamic farms in both the Northeast and Northwest. She has become known as a leader in ecological gardening techniques through her work as Horticulture Program Manager for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County and an educator at Cornell Garden-Based Learning, where she taught gardening to thousands of students and trained Master Gardener Volunteers.  There are 2,000 Master Gardener volunteers in New York State, and Jennie knows most of them.  She launched her ecological gardening education program Garden Rhythms (www.gardenrhythms.com) in April 2023. She has received excellent press in interviews as an expert in climate-wise gardening for articles on Martha Stewart’s website and Better Homes and Gardens.