Having been there and done that, Nicky Schauder offers her insights in Permaculture Gardening for Everyone with the intention of making the concept user-friendly for any level of gardening skill.

After two of their children were diagnosed with severe allergies, Nicky and her husband, Dave, started researching ways to combat the problem. They decided to grow their own food.

It took a while, but the couple were able to overcome the obstacles in their path, not only using the permaculture techniques they learned to increase the harvest from their own gardens, but to offer assistance to others wanting to walk the same path. With this book, Nicky has combined the couple’s lessons in permaculture with personal insights, photos, and illustrations to help anyone facing similar roadblocks to better health.

She starts by defining permaculture, then goes on to offer advice on designing a garden, choosing your plants, starting your seeds, designing a garden plot, transplanting the seedlings, maintaining your plot, and harvesting the bounty.

As Nicky says, “You and I have a chance to intentionally design one, maybe two, maybe more permaculture gardens in our lifetimes. Little patches of well-designed land, which, coupled with hard work and perhaps a bit of prayer, can indeed renew the face of the earth.”

Take the opportunity this book provides to start your own journey on growing food to help keep your family happy and healthy while becoming more self-sufficient and less reliant on a commercial food chain.