Truly an excellent book. I’m far from Florida up in Minnesota but I highly recommend this book even if you’re just near Florida. Permaculture is such a wonderful way to transform your yard, feed your family, help the planet, improve your health, save money, you name it. It’s gardening with much less work and expense, since you plant a self sustaining garden that mimics what nature would do on its own to take care of itself.

I use permaculture in my own yard, happily harvesting elderberries, strawberries, asparagus, mint, chives, black raspberries, lambs quarters, plantain, cherries, etc. that grow without my help year after year. This book gives you all the information you need and more with truly inspirational stories of many Florida homeowners who provide up to 90% of their family’s food on small lots and often bring in income from them too. There’s so much information on how to be successful and then detailed plant profiles of hundreds of suggested plants with photos, growing information, cautions and recipes.

Pike also gives you information on helpful plants probably growing nearby that you can forage instead of planting too. Nobody should be planting kudzu, for instance, but you can learn how to harvest it and use multiple parts of it in recipes.

Highly, highly recommended.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book via NetGalley.