annieb123
Written on Mar 5, 2022
The Regenerative Garden is a tutorial and reference for relaxing with plants, using plants, and building a healthy garden written by Stephanie Rose. Due out 15th March 2022 from Quarto on their Cool Springs Press imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This is a well written gardening guide with lots of small tutorials with a more holistic & meditative aspect. The basic gardening info is here: how to improve soil, how to plan and choose planting material, how to conserve and get the best use out of water resources, climate, ethics, and community building. In addition, each chapter contains project tutorials related thematically to the chapter. The projects are listed individually in the table of contents. Within each tutorial are included highlighted text boxes showing three levels of engagement for supporting and improving garden health. For example, the first level might be to build a trellis, second level is to build it using re-purposed materials to keep them out of a landfill, and the third and most desirable level is to use it and re-use it until it's ready to be composted.
The author has also included a resources and links list as well as a short list of annotations related to information in the book. Resources are mostly slanted to readers living and gardening in North America, although the information contained in the book itself will be broadly relevant for readers no matter where they live.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.