Gardening with Grains is a pioneering book by Brie Arthur, one of today’s leading voices in edible landscaping, Arthur shows us how easy it is to grow grains in our gardens. Who knew? Follow her inspiring, upbeat adventure with growing six key grains in her home garden.  From design to planting to harvest, you’ll learn along with Arthur how rewarding it can be to add grains as ornamentals or edibles to your own farm-to-table garden. Gardening with Grains takes foodscaping to new heights of beauty, enjoyment and sustainability.

Foodscaping visionary Brie Arthur looks at under-utilized garden spaces around homes or in the landscaped common spaces of planned communities – and she sees places where food can be grown…lots and lots of it. And not in isolated patches, but inter-planted with non-food ornamental plants for year-round beauty. This is a new way of looking at public and private spaces, where aesthetics and function operate together to benefit individuals and entire communities. In The Foodscape Revolution, Arthur presents her status-quo-shaking plan to reinvent the common landscape – in a way that even HOA’s would approve. Call it food gardening “in plain sight,” and having it all.

In this entertaining and informative book, you’ll learn which edible and ornamental pairings work best to increase biodiversity, how to situate beds to best utilize natural water and light resources, and most importantly, how to begin an enriched gardening lifestyle that is beneficial, sustainable and empowering. With full-color photos, design plans, simple projects and bountiful tips, The Foodscape Revolution can be life-changing.