“Acadia Tucker's books are both beautiful and practical. With the approachable but extensive blueprint that she provides, you can't help but be immediately empowered and inspired to join the carbon gardening movement.”
— Annie Martin, KISS THE GROUND
“Acadia's books are wonderful, timely, and elucidate the simple and the complex beautifully. I especially love the call to action of the climate victory garden. We are at a time in human history where we all must get involved to reclaim our food supply and halt climate chaos, and these guides are an inviting how-to. Brava!”
— Ave Lambert, Director of Education, CUESA
“Growing Good Food is about working where we are, on a small scale, to improve the health of the land. Acadia Tucker tells us that what we do matters and if we have access to any piece of ground we can start addressing climate change. My father, Wendell Berry, says that this kind of work is radical now, when public attention is focused on global solutions. This work is what people are for.”
— Mary Berry, Executive Director, The Berry Center, New Castle, Kentucky
The food gardening that author Acadia Tucker describes in her books is a form of activism and rebellion against a system that is extractive and exploitive.
–Kamea Chayne, Green Dreamer podcast
“Tucker has a unique perspective on the climate crisis. Working as a farmer from Washington State to New Hampshire, she has seen radical, unpredicted shifts in climate which decimated sensitive annual crops but spared perennials. She has also seen the difference it makes to those crops when soil contains an abundance of organic material vs traditionally farmed soil which doesn’t. It’s fascinating to read.”
— Todd Heft, Big Blog of Gardening (Read full review)
Acadia Tucker’s new book shows what it takes for beginners to throw themselves into regenerative agriculture.
- Lindsay Campbell, Modern Farmer (Read full review)
In a backyard, porch, balcony, or windowsill—you can grow food just about anywhere and Acadia’s here to show you how. More than that, this book digs into the positive impact that even a tiny garden can have on your mental health, community food security, and local biodiversity. A great read for those interested in gardening, and not sure where to start.
—Jes Walton, Green America
Gardener extraordinaire Acadia Tucker provides those of us without much yard space everything we need for planting nutritious balcony crops, indoor container gardens, and lush green rooftop farms. More delicious climate-saving ideas from this inspirational farmer-writer.
–Virginia Aronson, Director, Food and Nutrition Resources Foundation
Acadia Tucker’s Growing Perennial Foods is a must-have resource for home gardeners looking to take their conservation efforts to the next level. With hard-earned knowledge and conversational clarity, Tucker demystifies the concepts of regenerative agriculture, translates them to the garden level, and guides the reader both philosophically and practically. Her focus on perennial plants provides an exciting and useful method of enacting the principles of regenerative agriculture, one that any sustainable gardener will appreciate.
– Stephanie Anderson, author, One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
I have every intention of referring back to the sections on individual plants as the season develops. The advice can likely be best internalized as you mull over your plants as you prepare the ground, seed them, and watch them develop. It is a book that should have lots of dirty fingerprints on it by the end of a growing season. There are plenty of gardening advice books, but the focus here on perennials and on carbon capture gardening sets this one apart.
-Ivan Emke, Book on the Coffee Table