The Wild & Free Garden

The Wild & Free Garden is your guide to creating a stunning outdoor space using nothing but found materials, free resources, community connections, and your own creativity. 

Money is tight for millions of homeowners who want a beautiful outdoor living space but don’t have the budget to create it. Here’s where author Stephanie Rose of @garden_therapy comes to the rescue by providing ideas and insight for building the backyard of your dreams with zero monetary investment. She’s perfected the recipe for resourceful, eco-chic gardening using freely available materials coupled with a splash of ingenuity and dash of DIY inspiration. 

In The Wild & Free Garden you’ll learn how to:

• Embrace a zero-cost gardening lifestyle for a stylish, sustainable yard
• Develop a sharing economy mindset and learn where to find the free resources you need 
• Identify community partners and programs for sourcing both information and materials 
• Repurpose furniture, architectural salvage, and hardscaping materials 
• Find free mulch and soil amendments
• Start a composting collective for neighbors and other community members 
• Save seeds and propagate plants for your own use or for a plant swap 
• Collaborate with neighbors to share plant care, build a greenhouse, or set up a rainwater collection system
• Implement a community tool-lending library, seed exchange, or group purchases of bulk items

Plus, a dozen step-by-step illustrated DIY projects help you do everything from building a patio or arbor to setting up solar-powered garden lighting.

More than just a gardening book, this is an invitation to join a movement that’s cultivating not just plants, but also stronger communities and a more sustainable world—all without spending a penny.