LettsSafari's New Book on Garden Rewilding to be Serialised at LettsSafari+
LettsSafari's 2nd Book: HALF WILD - The Art and Science of Rewilding Your Garden.
Four years ago we published a long-form article to help you design your very own LettsSafari rewilded garden. It has been incredibly popular, with many of you telling us that it inspired you to start rewilding your back yard, terrace garden, community space and even the odd village green.
We shared it many times, in many places.
A few months ago, we started to update it and expand on it. After all, the garden rewilding movement has come quite a way and we, at LettsSafari, know a whole lot more.
After endless late nights and horribly early winter mornings, our updated, expanded long-form article became a brand new, full-on book focused purely on garden rewilding! One which we hope one day could become the definitive guide.
A book that shows you how to go full throttle - way beyond a mini wildflower meadow or planting a couple of trees. A book about the nature reserve next door - helping you turn any garden into a wildlife sanctuary.
A book that puts a marker down: An end-to-end guide to creating your very own wild garden. A detailed, complete approach to rewilding your outside space - and why it matters.
Twelve months ago year we serialised our first LettsSafari book - ‘The Definitive Guide To Smaller-Scale Rewilding’ - right here at LettsSafari+. You helped us shape and enhance it to the point where, soon it will be published as a full blown coffee table book - for general release. A big thank you for all your help.
LettsSafari Launching Definitive Guide to Smaller-Scale Rewilding
When we launched LettsSafari.com and LettsSafari+ three and a half years ago we set a goal that our research, learnings and weekly updates about LettsSafari and smaller-scale rewilding would end up adding up to a book. Not in the traditional way, like most things LettsSafari, but a digital book that would be shared with our members, in weekly instalments. A book, that if it was done right, could become
New this year - our brand new guide to garden rewilding kicks off next week!
From next week we will start serialising this latest book - focused exclusively on rewilding your urban or cottage garden. A pocket sized, practical and easy to use guide to getting it done in your very own space.
LettsSafari’s new guide to garden rewilding covers:
Why the (garden rewilding) journey starts here
What Is Garden Rewilding?
Why Rewilding Your Garden Is the Right Thing to Do
The LettsSafari Design Method
Habitat Modules — Building the Mosaic
Wild Grasses and Mini-Meadows
Wildflower and Pollinator Beds
Shrubs, Scrub, and the Wild Corner
Trees, Hedges, and Climbers
Pond, Bog, and Wetland Edges
Deadwood, Stones, Compost, and Microhabitat Engineering
Step-by-Step Build Plans for a Small Urban Garden, Medium Urban Garden and Cottage Garden Rewilding
The Seasonal Calendar
Case Studies and Evidence
LettsSafari as a Movement
Appendices: Plant Palettes, Resources, and Quick-Reference Cards
Next week, an inspiring book review will get us in the mood. Following this, we will serialise our guide to garden rewilding at LettsSafari+, week by week, section by section.
This is not a book that tells you rewilding is someone else’s job. It is a book that tells you the job starts here, in the ground beneath your feet.
Let the journey begin.
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