Praise for Brie Arthur and Gardening with Grains
“Grains? In your landscape? You better believe it!… Get ready for your worldviews – or at least your landscape views – to shift dramatically.”
~ Chip Hope, Director, Appalachian State University Sustainable Development Teaching and Research Farm
“We rarely think of the beauty of agriculture. Brie Arthur’s delicious book brings this beauty directly to us. Her personal delight in gardening with grains is infectious.”
~ Chris Woods, former director and chief designer at Chanticleer, Wayne, PA, author, Gardenlust
“Brie is the ultimate horticultural game changer. …bold, visionary, and yet at the same time, utterly practical. There is no one better than Brie to be a catalyst for gardening change.”
~ Anne M. Spafford, MLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Design,Department of Horticultural Sciences, North Carolina State University
“Gardening with Grains is a book that needed to be written.”
~ Jere Gettle, owner, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
“Brie Arthur is the one person this world needs now more than ever when it comes to gardening and growing! …My go-to source for gardening wisdom.”
~ Joe Lamp’l, Creator and Executive Producer,PBS’s “Growing a Greener World,” joegardener.com
“Brie Arthur recovers grain’s proper role in landscape design, and its power as a symbol of the harmony of humans and the growing world.”
~ Dr. David S. Shields, Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina;author, The Culinarians
“Brie has a contagious passion for pushing the limits of the role of edible plants in the landscape. “
~ Matthew Ross, Director, Continuing Education, Longwood Gardens
“In this era of rampant urbanization, Brie Arthur has reignited the cultural conversation around home landscapes and food.”
~ Kelly D. Norris, Director of Horticulture and Education, Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden
“Brie Arthur is the real deal …the cheerleader we need to inspire us to action.”
~ Pam Beck, author, Best Garden Plants for North Carolina
“Brie Arthur has the vision that the landscape can be functional and food producing, as well as decorative. …that the inclusion of non-traditional landscape plants can enhance the landscape for the benefit of home-grown food production and the local environment.”
~ Dr. Gary Bachman, Mississippi State University Extension, Research Professor of Horticulture;Host and Executive Producer, “Southern Gardening”
“If you read Brie’s books or attend her lectures, you cannot help but be swept up by her extraordinary vision and energy – you will be planting veggies and barley the very next day!”
~ Barbara Katz, London Landscapes LLC , Washington, DC
“Brie Arthur’s Gardening With Grains is filled with fascinating observations on the beauty, culture and use of a wide variety of grains coupled with brilliant recommendations for their creative integration into the residential landscape.”
~ Patrick Cullina, Patrick Cullina Horticultural Design + Consulting, New York, NY
“Brie Arthur inspires us to grow more grains, which are as beautiful as they are tasty. She passionately demonstrates the usefulness of these plants and how they can be in everyone’s garden (and kitchen).”
~ R. William Thomas, Executive Director and Head Gardener at Chanticleer, Wayne, PA
“Anyone who knows Brie knows we’re talking about a lady on a mission for adventuresome horticulture. With this book, Brie marries fun backyard food production with smart landscape horticulture and throws in a dash of credible agronomy to make it all work.”
~ Dr. David Creech, Regent’s Professor and Professor Emeritus,Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
“Thanks go to Brie for sharing her enthusiasm for growing grains!”
~ Ros Creasy, edible landscaping pioneer; author, Edible Landscaping
“A volume that makes you fall in love with agricultural grains is long overdue. … Brie says in this book what she tells us always – that we gardeners are radicals who can take control of our own spaces and thereby change the definitions of beauty.”
~ Jenks Farmer, plantsman, garden designer, horticulturist; author, Deep-Rooted Wisdom
“If you love plants, there’s nothing better than a new garden experiment. Brie opens the door to a whole new world of grains in which gardeners get to play with their food!”
~ Leslie F. Halleck, horticulturist, author, green industry consultant
Gardening
with
GRAINS
Gardening
with
GRAINS
Bring the versatile beauty of grains into your landscape
Brie Arthur
Author of The Foodscape Revolution
Gardening with Grains
Bring the versatile beauty of grains into your landscape
Copyright © 2019 by Brie Arthur
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes.
ISBN-13: 978-1-943366-35-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933549
CIP information available upon request
First Edition, 2019
St. Lynn’s Press . POB 18680 . Pittsburgh, PA 15236 412.466.0790 . www.stlynnspress.com
Book design – Holly Rosborough
Editor – Catherine Dees
Photo credits:
All photos © Brie Arthur except for the following:
David Arthur – pages xv and 25; Sonya Harris (Chip and Brie) – page 21; Elina Pelican – pages 27, 28, 40, 150,