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The Wild & Free Garden

Transform Your Outdoor Space with Found Materials, Community Sharing, and Creative Ingenuity
By Stephanie Rose
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The Wild & Free Garden is your guide to creating a stunning outdoor space using nothing but found materials, free resources, community connections, and your own creativity. Money is tight for millions of homeowners who want a beautiful outdoor living space but don't have the budget... Read More
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Transform your yard into a lush botanical paradise with zero monetary investment using free resources, community connections, your own ingenuity, and the advice found in The Wild & Free Garden.

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The Wild & Free Garden is your guide to creating a stunning outdoor space using nothing but found materials, free resources, community connections, and your own creativity.

Money is tight for millions of homeowners who want a beautiful outdoor living space but don't have the budget to create it. Here's where author Stephanie Rose of @garden_therapy comes to the rescue by providing ideas and insight for building the backyard of your dreams with zero monetary investment. She's perfected the recipe for resourceful, eco-chic gardening using freely available materials coupled with a splash of ingenuity and dash of DIY inspiration.

In The Wild & Free Garden you'll learn how to:

  • Embrace a zero-cost gardening lifestyle for a stylish, sustainable yard
  • Develop a sharing economy mindset and learn where to find the free resources you need
  • Identify community partners and programmes for sourcing both information and materials
  • Repurpose furniture, architectural salvage, and hardscaping materials
  • Find free mulch and soil amendments
  • Start a composting collective for neighbours and other community members
  • Save seeds and propagate plants for your own use or for a plant swap
  • Collaborate with neighbours to share plant care, build a greenhouse, or set up a rainwater collection system
  • Implement a community tool-lending library, seed exchange, or group purchases of bulk items

Plus, a dozen step-by-step illustrated DIY projects help you do everything from building a patio or arbor to setting up solar-powered garden lighting.

More than just a gardening book, this is an invitation to join a movement that's cultivating not just plants, but also stronger communities and a more sustainable world—all without spending a penny.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781577156390

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 February 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 531g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Stephanie Rose is an award-winning author, freelance writer, instructor, and international speaker who aims to encourage better living through plants. Her books include Garden Alchemy and The Regenerative Garden. As a long-time student and teacher of organic gardening, permaculture design, herbalism, and natural skin care formulation, she enjoys inspiring others to learn how to grow and use plants, with a focus on regenerative practices that are green, healthy, and natural. She is a member of Garden Communicators International, the Permaculture Institute of North America, the International Herb Association, and volunteers to develop children's gardens as a Vancouver Master Gardener. She shares stories, recipes, and projects on her inspiring website, GardenTherapy.ca.

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