The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-Round Harvests

by Huw Richards

Grow annual and perennial crops following permaculture principles on design, sustainability, and polyculture

Harvest year-round from your bountiful and sustainable kitchen garden.

Huw Richards’ ultimate guide to permaculture gardening, outlining the regenerative methods that make kitchen gardening easier to do while being more productive. Huw shows you how to expand your growing beyond annual staples like tomatoes and cabbages to perennial fruits and vegetables.

By mixing your planting, gardening seasonally, and optimizing your garden design, you will create a more beautiful and sustainable kitchen garden that is better for the soil, wildlife, and your crops – without costing more of your time. The book to a substantial and comprehensive reference of edible plants and flowers you can grow – when to sow, grow on, and harvestIncludes perennials that crop every year, maximizing yield for effortA permaculture streamline the way your garden operates with ideas on building resilience, using vertical space, generating healthy soil, and mixed “polyculture” plantingAesthetics and how to make your kitchen garden look good by planting ornamental edibles and flowering crops that attract pollinatorsA roadmap for the year ahead guides you through the key moments throughout the four seasons

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

288 pages, Hardcover

Published March 25, 2025

About the author

Huw Richards is the rugby correspondent of the Financial Times.

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive, brilliantly written, and extremely informative guide to introducing permaculture principles to the garden. Huw makes things feel really accessible even to non-experts like myself!

[Carson Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely need to check out again in February for inspiration!