If you're just starting to explore the idea of turning your typical yard into an edible landscape, this book is probably for you: it's broad strokes, not fine details; it's stories and ideas, not how-to. For me, someone who's already going down this road, it wasn't what I was hoping and not all that useful. I wanted more specifics.

Thanks Netgalley and the authors Gary Pilarchik and Chiara D'Amore for making this available!

Convert your unproductive lawn and landscape areas into fruitful edible gardens with this practical guide overflowing with ideas, plans, designs, and know-how.Out with the lawn and in with the food! That’s the battle cry of millions of modern gardeners who are not only looking to reduce the amount of time and energy they have to spend tending a lawn, but they’re also looking to improve the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors by supplying them with fresh, homegrown food.
Always looking for more ways to make my yard edible as well as beautiful!

This book is a treasure! I didn't really need all the front sections about why lawns are a menace and why edible landscaping is such a blessing, but it's good that it was covered so thoroughly for those who might not get it yet. The book is packed with gorgeous photos of both authors' gardens and landscapes, and so much helpful information and inspiration. This is one I wouldn't mind buying for my own home library.

A great book for anyone wanting to invest in their landscape. All the reasons not to grow grass and great examples of how to make your land work for you!

Growing an Edible Landscape: How to Transform Your Outdoor Space into a Food Garden by Gary Pilarchik; Chiara D'Amore is currently scheduled for release on November 28 2023. Out with the lawn and in with the food! That’s the battle cry of millions of modern gardeners who are not only looking to reduce the amount of time and energy they have to spend tending a lawn, but they’re also looking to improve the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors by supplying them with fresh, homegrown food. Converting unused areas of the landscape into food gardens helps mitigate the effects of climate change, reduces food miles, improves food security, and allows us to be a better steward of our little slice of the planet. But how do you get started? Which plants do you choose? Is there a series of best practices to follow to successfully convert your yard into an edible oasis so that it’s not just high-yielding, but it’s also attractive? Growing an Edible Landscape is here to help answer all of these questions and many more.

Growing an Edible Landscape was exactly what I expected, and offered encouragement and good information. I loved that the fact that most of us cannot go out and do all of this right away- whether the restraints are time, money, both, or completely different obstacles. The point is made that this can be a gradual project, something that can be continuous and ongoing for as long as you would like. That really takes the mental pressure off when starting to plan your own yard's future. Especially since I am a very bad gardener- I have grand plans and get everything started, and then I have to admit that by mid summer my devotion to my gardens has waned. I like that there are a wide variety of plans and information to help just about every interested gardener take some steps into the edible landscape direction, with the understanding that it really can be a lot of work and to be realistic in your expectations and planning. There is a great deal of information in this book, and I think it is one that my just make it on my bookshelf for referring back to each year as I evaluate what I did the previous year and plan the next round of changes and plantings.

Growing an Edible Landscape offers straight forward advice. Be empowered to start or extend your garden and enjoy the bounty. Pictures, options, and real talk throughout are sure to help novice gardeners find success and year round yummies.

Great, timely work on growing food and gardening. This will be popular with many of our readers. Will order.

It's the charts on this one that make it worth it. There are multiple ideas for how to plan out your garden, general designs in a variety of sun conditions. But what is really helpful are the charts. There is a listing of common plants someone might choose to grow and the conditions that it needs to do well. That and the instructions on how to build successful beds makes this one a big up for a beginning gardener.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing/Cool Springs Press for making a copy of this book available to review through NetGalley.

Growing an Edible Landscape is an excellent resource for the home gardener. It can be overwhelming to the amateur grower to sort through the myriad of resources out there on sustainable living, but this volume is a wonderful one. It's short--at just under 100 pages, and is rich in photographic detail. I appreciated not only the design ideas, but those for using your produce and the seed starting charts.

As I want to incorporate more usable plants onto my property, this would be a go-to resource for me, and I would definitely recommend it to other non-experts like myself.

Most beginning gardeners aren't familiar with the concept of permaculture and might be overwhelmed by books about it, but this quick guide with lots of full-color photos and helpful tips demystifies the topic and makes designing and planting an edible landscape both appealing and straightforward. After a brief explanation of why food-producing gardens are more beneficial than lawns, the authors invite readers to explore their outdoor spaces and get to know them before planning their gardens. Then they walk the reader through various kinds of garden design, from containers kept close to the home to raised beds and even a food forest.

Many of the basics are covered here: understanding the conditions your garden is working with (sun, rain, soil), discovering the variety of foods you can grow at home, and tending and maintaining crops and garden spaces. But the book also gives examples of themed gardens, from edible flowers or a tea garden to perennial vegetables. Side bars throughout the book explain different terms or concepts, like a sun map or sheet mulching, and also provide multiple budget-saving tips for the home gardener.

Overall, it's a vibrant and inspiring introduction for gardeners who want not just to grow their own food but to do so in a sustainable way. 4 stars.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley, for providing an eARC of this book. Opinions expressed here are solely my own.