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

Practical ideas and inspiration to create a beautiful, productive and edible garden by means of a permaculture approach to growing.

Book cover for The Permaculture Book by Huw Richards

Written by the Sunday Times Bestselling author and permaculturist, Huw Richards, ‘The Permaculture Garden’ is a compendium of practical ideas and inspiration to create and maintain a well-designed and flourishing garden. Explanatory illustrations make key permaculture design concepts easy to understand, while detailed photography demonstrates real-life examples from Richards’ own garden. featuring comprehensive growing instructions for more than 130 perennial and annual crops, his latest book provides an authoritative guide on what and how to grow for the best results.

“The goal of this book is to give you a no-nonsense guide to creating a highly productive and ecological kitchen garden. It is packed with growing advice on over 130 perennial and annual crops, tips on building soil, techniques to create thriving polycultures, and much more!” explains Richards.

  • Create a thriving garden inspired by nature’s patterns that is better for the soil, local wildlife and plants
  • Design the space sustainably, factoring in climate, landscape, resources, energy and your goals for optimum synergy
  • Grow a diverse mix of plants together, from fruit trees to flowers and vegetables to herbs, for year-round harvests and a more resilient, ecological and attractive garden

Huw Richards is a permaculturalist, digital creator, and co-director for Regenerative Media based in mid-west Wales. His YouTube channel has over 800,000 subscribers and his videos have collectively been viewed over 85M times. Richards has written four books (DK): Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook (2022), and The Self-Sufficiency Garden (2024).

The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-round Harvests (DK) will be released on the 13th of March 2025 in the UK and on the 18th of March 2025 in the US.