Start with your place
Canadian climate, hardiness, frost, heat, household goals and a realistic first garden.
Growing knowledge, wherever you liveThe Great Canadian
The Great Canadian
Garden Bible.
A practical Canadian reference being developed to help a complete beginner grow food, understand the work and make good use of the harvest.
In development · Publication details to come
Manuscript in developmentFrom the first questions to the winter pantryA beginner deserves
A beginner deserves
the missing steps.
What can I grow here? When do I start? What does this plant need, and what do I do with the harvest?
The Great Canadian Garden Bible is being developed to connect those questions in one practical reference, with Canadian conditions in mind. You can enter through a region, a plant family, a planting window or the food you want to grow.
The current compiled manuscript contains 679 pages and describes 187 food-crop groups. These are development figures, not a final printed specification. Format, publication date and price are not yet announced.
A growing reference
Follow food through its whole story.
Understand the growing work
Soil, compost, seeds, propagation, water, practical projects and twenty planting guilds.
Choose and care for crops
Vegetables, herbs, fruits, nuts, grains, pulses, maples and cultivated mushrooms, with crop-specific guidance.
Explore protected growing
Greenhouses, specialist care and appropriate hydroponic or aeroponic notes where included in the manuscript.
Bring the harvest home
Harvest, storage, selected preservation processes, winter pantry planning and regional kitchen recipes.
Find your way back
Crop indexes, practical chapter routes, reusable worksheets and a source register to support continued learning.
From the foreword
“That was ordinary life to me.”
When Tyler was growing up, someone was making mustard relish, preserving beets and beans, or quietly repairing something another person needed. His grandparents, Phyllis and Bob, made resourcefulness and care part of daily life.
The book carries those roots into a beginner’s experience. Its purpose is to make the basic questions welcome and give people enough understanding to adapt what they learn to their own place.
“Plant something you want to eat.
Learn what helps it grow.
And when you have enough, share a little.”
Tyler Clark · The Great Canadian Garden Bible foreword
The first volume in a wider idea
A homestead is a set of relationships.
The planned series would continue into livestock, off-grid DIY and the systems that support a capable homestead. Each volume should help a reader connect one part of the work to the others.
The Garden Bible is the first focus. Further titles, formats and release dates are not yet commitments. The book is not currently being offered for preorder through this site.
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