The Diversity Blueprint: A Practical Guide to Plant Variety

Your garden can be more than rows of vegetables. It can be a living, resilient ecosystem that nourishes you season after season.

The Diversity Blueprint is a practical, illustrated guide that shows you how to harness the power of plant variety without creating chaos. Drawing inspiration from the forest itself, this guide teaches you how to layer plants, balance their roles, and design gardens that are abundant, beautiful, and self-supporting.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• The benefits of diversity: soil health, pest balance, and year-round harvests
• The dangers of over-diversity (and how to avoid them)
• Plant roles explained in plain language
• Seasonal playbooks for temperate, rainy, and dry climates
• Illustrated examples: forest layers and raised bed polycultures
• Practical charts, checklists, and troubleshooting tips

Whether you are tending a small raised bed or dreaming of a food forest, this guide gives you tools, inspiration, and confidence to grow with resilience.

At the heart of it, gardening is not just about techniques — it’s about joy, creativity, and learning. In this book, you’re encouraged to experiment, to play, and to see every so-called “failure” as experience gained. Create the magical forest you’ve always wanted. Create the garden of your dreams, one bed at a time.

Format: PDF (printable)
Length: ~45 pages with illustrations
Author: Everett Smith, New Era Resilience