The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer

**Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended-in layers.** Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases, and say hello to **an interplanted polyculture paradise**, filled with **layers of edible plants that outcompete weeds, share resources, and grow beautifully together**. In *The Layered Edible Garden*, author and food gardening pro Christina Chung of @fluent.garden introduces **a modern approach** to home food gardening that follows nature's lead by growing plants in mixed communities, instead of in agriculture-centric monocultures. By intentionally including **edible plants from 8 different layers** (trees, sub-canopy trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, ground covers, and edible roots) in your home garden, you'll be building a mini **"food forest"** that will produce food for years to come and require **less work** and **fewer resources**. With the insight found in *The Layered Edible Garden*, you'll: - Learn how to transform your home's landscape into an edible plant community - Meet dozens of plants in each of the 8 layers - Discover the many perks of growing perennial food crops that return to the garden year after year - Find design and planting advice to make your layered edible garden as attractive as it is productive - Be introduced to intensive planting strategies to organize plant layers in a functional and beautiful way - Acquire info on how to establish new planting areas and how to utilize the existing garden features already present Whether you have sun or shade, a large growing space or a small one, planting many layers of food plants together results in **a diverse, low-maintenance edible garden**, filled with plants that help support each other. The future of growing food is multi-layered.