Paperback, 664 pages
by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
ISBN: 978-1856232692

A highly detailed and beautifully illustrated guide to growing nutritious herbs, flowers, fruit, and vegetables, ideal for the home grower and market gardener.

Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer have designed a small farm in Normandy that is so productive, it provides a living for five people whilst cultivating just a small percentage of the land and rewilding the rest. In Volume 1 of Living with the Earth, they describe the overarching principles and influences of ecology and permaculture, and share how they work with Nature to create highly productive systems.

Volume 2 of this comprehensive series dives deep into the details. Subjects include:
- Growing methods
- Seeding & soil preparation
- Plant densities and replicable crop associations
- Tools, irrigation and harvesting
- Growing year-round
- Vegetables, fruits, microgreens, flowers, mushrooms, tree crops and forest gardens

Beautifully designed and full of useful, descriptive photographs, diagrams and charts, this manual provides a wealth of research and practical experience. These volumes are ground-breaking, with principles and practices that can be used on any scale. They are, however, of particular interest to small- to medium-scale farmers, horticulturalists, forest gardeners, agronomists, and market gardeners