The Productive Garden: An essential guide toward self-sufficiency

Start your own sustainable homestead with this self-sufficiency bible. Written by no-dig gardening guru and one of the 100 Leading Women in Horticulture 2025, Stephanie Hafferty, The Productive Garden provides practical, simple, resourceful, and enjoyable ways of creating a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Self-sufficiency doesn’t need to remain a dream. With over 30 years of experience, Stephanie Hafferty shows how easy it can be to grow your own, save money, reduce your consumption, increase resilience, and care for the planet – all from your own back yard. Stephanie does it every day, growing food to nourish herself and her family, and cultivating plants to create everyday household essentials. She also knows how to make a harvest last longer, and how to feed the soil so that it gives back generously, year after year.

In The Productive Garden, use permaculture principles to learn everything you need to know about growing abundant and useful crops, and how to make the most of what you produce.