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Grow more food, with more confidence — right in your own backyard.
If you've ever dreamed of harvesting abundant, beautiful vegetables at home—but felt overwhelmed by where to start—In Your Garden shows you how to grow like a professional, using simple, proven methods adapted for everyday life.
From world-renowned market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier, this practical, full-color guide brings the power of biointensive, ecological farming into the home garden—helping you create a space that is productive, resilient, and deeply rewarding.
What You'll Gain
- The confidence to design and manage a highly productive home garden
- Clear, step-by-step methods for growing vegetables from seed to harvest
- A deeper understanding of soil health, organic fertility, and plant care
- Practical systems that maximize yield—even in small spaces
- The skills to grow fresh, nutrient-dense food across the seasons
Rather than offering scattered tips, this book provides a complete, field-tested approach to growing food efficiently, naturally, and with intention.
Practical Methods for Real Home Gardens
Drawing from decades of experience on a world-class microfarm, Fortier translates professional techniques into accessible systems you can apply at home:
- Plan and design your garden for productivity and ease
- Build healthy, living soil using organic methods
- Select the right tools and streamline your workflow
- Grow, harvest, and store vegetables throughout the year
- Cultivate herbs, maximize flavor, and create visually beautiful garden spaces
If you're looking for practical ways to grow more food with less guesswork, this guide offers clarity grounded in real-world success.
Grow Like a Pro — At Home
This book is especially helpful for gardeners who want more than a hobby garden.
Rather than focusing only on inspiration, In Your Garden shows how small-scale, ecological growing systems can be adapted to backyard spaces—helping you achieve reliable harvests while working with nature.
Whether you are just starting out or refining your approach, the methods scale to your needs and experience.
Who This Book is For
- Home gardeners ready to grow more food with confidence and structure
- Fans of Jean-Martin Fortier looking to apply market gardening methods at home
- Beginners seeking a clear, step-by-step path to success
- Experienced gardeners improving efficiency, yield, and soil health
- Anyone interested in sustainable, regenerative food growing
A Trusted Voice in Ecological Growing
Jean-Martin Fortier has spent over two decades advancing small-scale, ecological farming. As the founder of Les Jardins de la Grelinette and the Market Gardener Institute, he has trained thousands of growers worldwide and helped shape a global movement toward regenerative, human-scale agriculture.
In In Your Garden, he brings that experience home—making professional knowledge accessible, practical, and deeply inspiring.
A More Resilient Way to Grow
Growing your own food is not just about productivity—it's about connection, resilience, and the satisfaction of working with living systems.
This book offers a grounded path forward—helping you cultivate abundance, season by season, in a way that supports both people and planet.
Starred Review
“This is a new standard work that should be part of all collections. . . . The information he provides is clear, rich, and more than sufficient to begin growing vegetables at home with success.”
...In Your Garden will help gardeners expand their skills (and their garden) to grow vegetables more effectively with less toil. If you’re ready to step up your game, grab this book—and a pencil.
— Christy Wilhelmi
Featured in The New York Times
In “A Methodic Way to Keep the Vegetables Coming,” gardening columnist Margaret Roach explores In Your Garden, Jean-Martin Fortier’s first book written specifically for home gardeners, and his methods for succession planting, permanent beds, crop spacing, soil health, and extending the harvest.
“In all of it, method is the operative word.”
— Margaret Roach
Fortier spares no detail, supporting his advice with helpful maps and charts. It’s an essential companion for home gardeners
Jean-Martin’s book is very well done and should be of great use to market growers everywhere. Exchange of ideas and information is so important because when we pass ideas on, the next person gets to start where we got to and take the ideas to another level.
— Eliot Coleman, organic farming pioneer and author of the Winter Harvest Handbook
Jean-Martin Fortier is a pro, who has shown countless market gardeners the way to success. In Your Garden gives home gardeners the information they need to make healthy, delicious food grow, just as he and his family do in their market garden. And the pictures in this warm and beautiful book make that path irresistible.
— Barbara Damrosch, farmer and author, The Garden Primer
In Your Garden is an approachable, encouraging, and galvanizing guide to help gardeners new and pro design a space of any size while making way for imperfection.
— Jules Torti, editor-in-chief, Harrowsmith magazine, and author, Camino Chaos
In Your Garden is an essential tool for new gardeners interested in growing their own food. It is a complete guide that provides expert advice in simple to understand step-by-step instructions for everything from developing strong organic soil to harvesting the perfect crop
— Robert Pavlis, author of the award-winning Plant Science for Gardeners and Food Science for Gardeners
Praise for Jean-Martin Fortier
Jean-Martin has laid out all of the basics for how we can grow more productively, and passionately on a more human-sized scale.
—Josh Volk, Slow Hand Farm, Portland, Oregon
Jean-Martin is my guru!
—Dan Brisebois, Tournesol Cooperative Farm, author, The Seed Farmer
Introduction by Jean-Martin Fortier
Chapter 1 – The Craft of Growing
Chapter 2 – Designing Your Garden Space
Chapter 3 – Planning Your Harvests
Chapter 4 – Tools of the Shed
Chapter 5 – Starting and Transplanting Seedlings
Chapter 6 – Spring Vegetables
Chapter 7 – Summer Vegetables
Chapter 8 – Fall Vegetables
Chapter 9 – Essential Culinary Herbs
Chapter 10 – Organic Fertilization
Chapter 11 – Harvesting and Storing the Bounty
Chapter 12 – Growing Vegetables in Winter
Final Thoughts
Appendix