Kitchen Garden Revival: A modern guide to creating a stylish, small-scale, low-maintenance, edible garden

Kitchen Garden Revival provides guidance on creating and maintaining a kitchen garden—an attractive, organized food garden designed for small spaces and low maintenance. Author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden and Gardenary, draws on her expertise to show how kitchen gardens differ from traditional vegetable patches by using raised beds arranged in geometric patterns. The book covers design and installation of kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone; explains why raised beds reduce maintenance; identifies crops suited to kitchen gardens; and provides planting, tending, and harvesting plans. It includes season-by-season growing guides. Kitchen gardens offer both ornamental appeal across four seasons and production of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Once common features of European and early American landscapes, they declined with industrialization. This guide aims to revive kitchen gardening as a practical, stylish way to grow food at home while reducing food miles and controlling what reaches your family's table.