The New Natural Food Garden

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.

• “A monumental, must-have book. Natalie and Chloe share their vast depths of growing experience in a way that is straightforward, adaptable, and inspiring.” 
  Jennifer Grayson, author of A Call to Farms
• "A major contribution to the world of local self-reliance and food production, and a book I’ll turn to year after year. It deserves a place on every gardener’s shelf."
  Ben Falk, author of The Resilient Farm and Homestead
• “I’ve spent years searching for the ultimate vegetable gardening guide—one brimming with charts, rich growing profiles, and the kind of hard-won wisdom only a seasoned gardener can offer. The New Natural Food Garden by Natalie Bogwalker and Chloe Lieberman is it. It’s already become my go-to reference. The lush imagery is a delight, and the thoughtfully crafted charts will save me untold hours of digging through research.”
  Juliet Blankespoor, Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and author of The Healing Garden
• "As an avid regenerative gardener, herbalist, and mother, I deeply appreciate books that encourage us to work with nature rather than constantly trying to control it. The New Natural Food Garden beautifully reflects that philosophy. Natalie Bogwalker and Chloe Lieberman share practical wisdom for growing abundant food in a way that honors the rhythms of the land while actually making gardening simpler and fun. What I love most is that the book encourages observation and relationship with the garden instead of rigid rules. It reminds us that paying attention to the rhythms of the land are the true foundations of a thriving garden. A wonderful guide for anyone who wants to grow nourishing food for their family while caring for the earth at the same time."
  Stephanie Hein, Wise Earth Botanicals, North Carolina
• "I love a good picture-forward comprehensive guidebook. The New Natural Food Garden is a gardening manual made easy for both novice gardeners and those with well caked dirt under their nails. The layout allows for quick referencing of techniques and information like building "badass topsoil" or making and using biochar (again, with ample diagrams and pictures!) I've learned so much simply from flipping to an area I want support and reading the sections next to it. This book is insanely resourceful." 
  Kearsley Tate Schweller, Private Chef and Women's Health Educator, Kearsley's Kitchen
• “I've already started using your book this spring in my garden planning and it's been incredibly helpful. I love how clearly laid out it is - the vegetable profiles have really helped me to plan what to plant when and given me great tips. The pictures in the book are gorgeous and I often get sucked in, just flipping through the book to be inspired by the gorgeous gardens and vegetables pictured. This book is exactly the garden guide book I've been looking for - simple, elegant, and all of the information I need to grow a successful garden.”
  Hannah S., Home Gardener, North Carolina