Books by Eric Toensmeier

  • Perennial Vegetables

  • From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
  • Eric Toensmeier
  • Paperback
  • In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less commmon edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food.

Chelsea Green Author Eric Toensmeier

Eric Toensmeier

Eric Toensmeier calls himself a "socially engaged plant geek." He has spent much of his adult life exploring edible and otherwise useful plants and how they can be used in designed ecosystems. His forthcoming book Perennial Vegetables will be published by Chelsea Green in Spring 2007. He is also co-author with Dave Jacke of the two-volume permaculture design manual Edible Forest Gardens. Eric has worked as a small farm trainer at the New England Small Farm Institute (Belchertown, MA) (www.smallfarm.org) and currently manages the Tierra de Oportunidades new farmer program of Nuestras Raíces (www.nuestras-raices.org) in Holyoke, MA. There he is designing and installing a permaculture landscape in concert with immigrant farmers who are starting farm-based enterprises in an urban context. Eric is a graduate and former faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, VT.