The Wild & Free Garden - by Stephanie Rose (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Wild & Free Garden is your guide to creating a stunning outdoor space using nothing but found materials, free resources, community connections, and your own creativity.

Money is tight for millions of homeowners who want a beautiful outdoor living space but don't have the budget to create it. Here's where author Stephanie Rose of @garden_therapy comes to the rescue by providing ideas and insight for building the backyard of your dreams with zero monetary investment. She's perfected the recipe for resourceful, eco-chic gardening using freely available materials coupled with a splash of ingenuity and dash of DIY inspiration.

In The Wild & Free Garden you'll learn how to:

• Embrace a zero-cost gardening lifestyle for a stylish, sustainable yard
• Develop a sharing economy mindset and learn where to find the free resources you need
• Identify community partners and programs for sourcing both information and materials
• Repurpose furniture, architectural salvage, and hardscaping materials
• Find free mulch and soil amendments
• Start a composting collective for neighbors and other community members
• Save seeds and propagate plants for your own use or for a plant swap
• Collaborate with neighbors to share plant care, build a greenhouse, or set up a rainwater collection system
• Implement a community tool-lending library, seed exchange, or group purchases of bulk items

Plus, a dozen step-by-step illustrated DIY projects help you do everything from building a patio or arbor to setting up solar-powered garden lighting.

More than just a gardening book, this is an invitation to join a movement that's cultivating not just plants, but also stronger communities and a more sustainable world--all without spending a penny.

About the Author

Stephanie Rose is an award-winning author, freelance writer, instructor, and international speaker who aims to encourage better living through plants. Her books include Garden Alchemy and The Regenerative Garden. As a long-time student and teacher of organic gardening, permaculture design, herbalism, and natural skin care formulation, she enjoys inspiring others to learn how to grow and use plants, with a focus on regenerative practices that are green, healthy, and natural. She is a member of Garden Communicators International, the Permaculture Institute of North America, the International Herb Association, and volunteers to develop children's gardens as a Vancouver Master Gardener. She shares stories, recipes, and projects on her inspiring website, GardenTherapy.ca.