Dessert Gardening

In Modern Guide for Organic Desert Gardening, you’ll discover the number one threat to a desert vegetable garden (and how you can confidently protect against); how to team up with the sun and the rain so they don’t work against you; essential tools for the desert gardener - and exactly what to do with them; the most important factor you must pay attention to for successful desert gardening; and more.

Although even experienced gardeners must grapple with limited rainfall, dry temperatures, and scorching heat, you don't need to let that hold you back from growing a bountiful, organic harvest. Verda Hoffman knows firsthand the struggles of growing plants in a desert climate and has compiled a comprehensive guide that will take the guesswork out of desert gardening. Take frustration out of the equation and avoid time-consuming trial and error with these tried and true techniques. Get started on creating your desert oasis today!

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.