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Set your veggie gardens, fruit and chooks up for a strong beginning with my simple take on the permaculture design process.
Become a soil-building champion, forage for fertility, learn natural pest and disease management, winning ways with weeds and how to plant in guilds.
Greenhouse, berryhouse, no dig veggie beds, perennial companions and set up the orchard with my practical ways.
Tools, raising seedlings and simple seed saving, watering how to’s, crop rotation, greencrops and the easiest compost in the world.
The lowdown on timing, sowing and growing for vegetable crops plus my favourite perennial vegetables, herbs, nuts, fruit and a few berries too.
My monthly growing guide in the veggie patch, greenhouse and orchard to bring you a steady, daily harvest with ease.
Contained in these pages is everything you need to know to grow organic vegetables, fruit and herbs all year round in my simple, tried and true ways.
Hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes.
From beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge
Thanks for your support, but at we are on the road in our housetruck, so no – I’m not selling my books at the mo. Find a copy at your favourite bookshop, or online.
Yes! All major booksellers stock it.
No. Penguin, the publisher, sort the wholesale side of things.
Edible Backyard is Kath Irvine’s permaculture home garden. Created to support you on your journey to becoming a food gardener, Kath teaches you how to design and run your own low work + low input yet highly productive Edible Backyard.
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