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Edible Paradise: How to Grow Herbs, Flowers, Vegetables and Fruit in Any Space

Author Vera Greutink

"Edible Paradise is a goldmine of knowledge and inspiration for any gardener, with Vera’s voice clearly guiding you through the creativity of growing your own delicious food."—Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden and The Self-Sufficiency Garden

Learn how to create your own no-dig, organic garden with permaculture design and techniques. Vera Greutink’s 15 years of experience as a no dig gardener provides a vast amount of knowledge on growing fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers. The book is divided into two sections, container gardening and permaculture kitchen gardening. Part One shares knowledge especially useful to urban gardeners and those with little space. Part Two advises on starting and maintaining a garden. Vera’s specialty is creating beautiful and delicious polycultures and she offers a range of examples to get you started and the knowledge to experiment. She also includes recipes for your fresh harvests. Chapters on making compost, building raised beds, and a monthly job guide make this useful for all levels of gardener.

Vera demonstrates that gardens can look beautiful and be productive, and her advice and examples encourage us to look at our own growing spaces in a different light. We no longer need to hide our veggie patches; they can take centre stage. Why not incorporate cut flowers with herbs, brassicas and peas? Or plant a pottager garden? These examples will help people create edible paradises everywhere, like patios, balconies, windowsills, allotments, community and school gardens, front and back gardens and anywhere else we can grow.

About The Author

Vera Greutink is a permaculture gardener, teacher and designer based in the Netherlands. She’s been gardening for over 30 years during which she has created many beautiful and productive gardens. Vera regularly contributes to Dutch and Belgian gardening magazines as well as the English Permaculture Magazine. She is also Editor in Chief of the edible gardening magazine, De Tuin op Tafel (The Garden on the Table). To see what’s new at her 1/4 acre permaculture plot, follow her on Instagram and YouTube (both as GrownToCook).

  • Publish Date: May 14, 2019
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Category: Gardening - Container
  • Publisher: Permanent Publications
  • Trim Size: 7-1/2 x 9-1/2
  • Pages: 240
  • US Price: $21.95
  • CDN Price: $21.95
  • ISBN: 978-1-85623-325-5
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"One quick glance at Vera’s Instagram page will completely back up why this book is called Edible Paradise. That is exactly what she has created on her abundant ¼ acre plot in the Netherlands. I feel that Edible Paradise is a goldmine of knowledge and inspiration for any gardener, with Vera’s voice clearly guiding you through the creativity of growing your own delicious food. It is so refreshing to see the importance of soil health playing a vital role throughout, something which many gardening books fail to fully respect."—Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden and The Self-Sufficiency Garden

"Within seconds of finding Vera’s YouTube gardening channel, GrownToCook, I knew I found something very special. Her garden is not only amazingly bountiful; it’s also beautiful. And she achieves her results using an approach that is kind to the earth and low effort. Learn from Vera’s many years of experience, and understand how to apply her methods to grow a bountiful and beautiful garden of their own."—Patrick Dolan, OneYardRevolution

"Vera Greutink covers some really valuable fresh ground in this book. I am impressed by her insight and experience, especially in the area of annual polycultures. These are one of the central features of the book, not only in outside beds but also polycultures in pots for those who have a more limited space for growing, and have rarely been embraced to this degree in other books. I recommend it to all food growers."—Martin Crawford, author and founder of the Agroforestry Research Trust

"This is a real permaculture gardener's bible! It's wonderful to have such a comprehensive gardening book written from a permaculture perspective. Vera Greutink writes with the clarity of her great experience of working with plants in many different situations. She demystifies some permaculture practices which new gardeners or traditional gardeners can find intimidating or confusing. She considers the many different situations of the grower and lays out basic principles and practical methods to make growing healthy food in harmony with nature accessible to all. This is a brilliant companion for new or experienced gardeners and I will add it to my list of recommended reading for gardening and permaculture students, alongside those which inspired Vera to develop her own green fingers."—Caroline Aitken, permaculture teacher, designer, and author

"Whether your patch is an allotment, community garden, backyard or even just a patio or balcony, this gorgeous book is packed with information and inspiration, empowering anybody to create productive and beautiful regenerative edible landscapes today."—Graham Burnett, permaculture teacher and author