Books on sustainable gardening

Good Life Growing
By Hannah Moloney
Affirm Press
Hannah Moloney’s second book is a positive and comprehensive guide to growing food in any sized space and climate, for both beginner and experienced gardeners. Packed with illustrations, including Hannah’s own diagrams, the book hums with enthusiasm and is full of expert advice on growing your own fruit and vegies.

The Good Life
By Hannah Moloney
Affirm Press
Hannah brings her enthusiasm for permaculture and 15 years of experience to her debut book, subtitled How to grow a better world. Her view of a good life is one that’s built around cultivating community, sustainability, and practising ‘radical hope’, which she describes as courage and optimism against the odds in the current climate emergency.

The Preserving Garden
By Jo Turner
Thames & Hudson Australia
Growing and preserving your own food can reduce food miles, waste and plastic use, and help us to reclaim control over what we eat. This colourful and stylishly illustrated book offers practical guidance – from planting and caring for a vegie garden and fruit trees to bottling, pickling, fermenting and cooking your own home-grown food year round.

The Compost Coach
By Kate Flood
Murdoch Books
This is a beautiful, detailed and well-organised guide to everything about composting by author Kate Flood. Her book is packed with the what, why and how of composting to make it easy and attainable for all.

Futureproof your garden
Angus Stewart and Emma Stewart
Murdoch Books
This beautifully illustrated guide to creating environmentally sustainable, waterwise gardens and landscapes is a valuable resource, with strategies for using, capturing and storing water efficiently during drought or deluge.

The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg
Allen Lane
Aged just 15, Greta Thunberg initiated a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 and became one of the world’s leading climate activists. Her book contains wisdom from more than 100 experts, including geophysicists, meteorologists, oceanographers, engineers, historians, economists, mathematicians, philosophers and indigenous leaders.

The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook
By Kirsten Bradley
Murdoch Books
This is a beautiful guide packed with advice, skills and projects to help improve your home, health and happiness – and our planet – by implementing simple changes, one step at a time.

A Conscious Garden
By Rebecca Sullivan
Australian Geographic
Featuring luscious photography, this book offers advice, recipes and projects for creating and maintaining a resilient, sustainable and resplendent garden across all seasons and locations, from apartments and suburban homes to rural properties.