Grower Gatherer: edible perennials to grow and forage in your garden (signed copy)

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FINALIST IN THE 2026/2027 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE

Bring the joy of foraging into your own garden with this beautiful guide to growing low-maintenance edible perennials

“Jack is a brilliant gardener and passionate environmentalist, and he’s brought these two attributes into beautiful collaboration in his new book, Grower Gatherer. This is the book we needed to guide our growing in these unpredictable times.”
– Claire Ratinon, author of Unearthed

“Grower Gatherer is absolutely inspirational. This informative, well researched book is packed with a wide range of edible perennials, including helpful planting plans and growing combinations, and how to harvest and eat the crops. Perfect for growing your own low maintenance forage garden.”
– Stephanie Hafferty, author of The Productive Garden

“Exactly what we were saying we needed!”
– Georgie Newbery, author of the Flower Farmer’s Year

“A very use­ful guide to cre­at­ing a low-main­ten­ance, sus­tain­able, edible garden.”
– Julianne Robertson, The People’s Friend Magazine

In Grower Gatherer: edible perennials to grow and forage in your garden, my aim is to give you multiple tools to make food growing much easier and more rewarding:

• Over 50 of my favourite edible perennials for delicious flavour, ease of growing and high yield

• A spread of nutrition from protein to iron, calcium and carbs, it’s possible to obtain a high amount of our essential nutrition from these edible perennials

• Plans and methods to design and plant an edible forage garden

• Ideas for incorporating beautiful edible perennials into your existing ornamental garden

• Example planting plans for an entirely edible border including fruit and nut, as well as entirely savoury plantings

• Shown how edible perennials are brilliant for creating excellent wildlife supporting habitat

• Explored how foraging is part of our very DNA and it should also be in our gardens

• Hundreds of full colour photos of the plants and crops at different stages to help explain everything

• Plus much more advice and guidance to give you everything you need to transform any size outdoor space into a beautiful, productive future garden

Also available from other booksellers

Waterstones | Blackwell’s | Bookshop.org | Hive | independent bookshops

Keep growing with me 

Explore my Food & Gardens section for more advice on turning your garden into a productive edible patch using edible perennials, plant community design and permaculture.