A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future

By Benjamin Vogt

• As climate change and mass extinction continue to impact the natural world, we will be called upon to garden the planet more actively
• Explores how native plants in home, business, and public landscapes will play a critical role in helping us know and appreciate wildlife, while awakening us to global wildlife stewardship
• First book to explore why our urban and suburban wildlife gardens matter, not only for our personal pleasure but for the larger human community as well as other species
• Author presents a new garden ethic and describes why we need to invite wildness back into our lives to promote both physical and mental health
• Discusses why we need native plants to help wildlife, what a native plant is, and why that discussion is often so emotional.
• Explores successful examples of urban gardens featuring wild and native plants
• The book uses personal stories and research in a lyrical, narrative, and academic exploration that asks us to radically rethink our culture through gardening in our communities.
• The author has a Ph.D. in creative writing and writes a weekly native plant garden design column at Houzz.com, which has been read over 2.5 million time

• Language: English
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Release date: Sep 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781771422451

Reviews for A New Garden Ethic

[daniel5estes · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Ugh, I'm solely to blame for expecting this book to be something other than it was. I discovered the author in a travel magazine, and the subsequent featured article was so enticing that I decided to check out his book, A New Garden Ethic.What I expected: A how-to manual on how to redesign my Midwestern lawn to include more local plant life. Maybe a sidebar on why certain species are better in certain situations than others. It would be a way to add variety to our landscape while keeping the maintenance to a minimum.What I got: This book is exactly what the title implies, a defiant manifesto that equates home gardening with fighting climate change.