A life of plenty doesn’t require acres of land. It can begin right where you are.

Ten years ago, Ken’s Kitchen Garden began as the story of one ordinary city home becoming a little more self-reliant—one garden bed, one project, and occasionally one spectacular failure at a time.

A decade later, the garden has grown, the chickens have multiplied, the bees have arrived, and there have been plenty more lessons along the way.

In this expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition, author, gardener, and Master Herbalist Kenneth Wright returns to that original journey with another decade of practical experience. From growing vegetables, fruits, herbs, and edible landscapes to keeping chickens and bees, preserving the harvest, capturing rainwater, conserving resources, and developing useful household skills, Ken’s Kitchen Garden explores the many small ways we can become more capable and more connected to the lives we create.

Inside you’ll find practical ideas for:

• Growing more food in urban and suburban spaces

• Building healthier soil through composting and organic gardening

• Making the most of small spaces with raised beds, containers, vertical gardening, and edible landscaping

• Growing kitchen herbs, vegetables, fruits, and perennial foods

• Keeping backyard chickens and honeybees

• Harvesting, preserving, and storing food for later seasons

• Using rainwater and renewable energy where they make practical sense

• Developing a more resilient, resourceful, and self-reliant home

• Learning from the projects that don’t go according to plan

This is not a prescription for abandoning modern life, moving to the country, or doing absolutely everything yourself.

It is an invitation to do something.

Grow the tomatoes. Plant the herbs. Bake the bread. Keep a few chickens. Learn to preserve the harvest. Catch the rain. Develop a skill you didn’t have before. Take what works for your home, your resources, and your life—and leave the rest.

Because self-reliance isn’t a destination. It’s something we practice.

Plant something. Make something. Learn something.

Create your own life of plenty.