A beautiful and practical step-by-step guide to growing and gathering plants and using them to fill your life and home with natural homemade creations

Fuse your love for crafting and the outdoors with this incredible compilation of DIY crafts, recipes and gifts made with natural materials you can grow or gather yourself. Gardening and crafting expert Amy Renea takes you on a journey to collect plant materials from the woods, the backyard, the garden and even the pantry, then craft those items into something special yet easy to do. She provides detailed tutorials and recipes for things like making solid perfume, crafting wooden buttons to accent a hat, preparing natural dye for easy paper flowers, canning your own fruit jam, handcrafting wreaths, using seed pods to create beautifully rustic earrings and even making your own coconut oil for lotions or sea salt for hand scrubs! And throughout the book, you’ll learn new crafting techniques like wood burning, imprinting leaves onto clay and how to infuse oil with herbs for culinary and cosmetic delights.

Each chapter starts with a common plant and a beginner-friendly guide to growing or gathering it, then dives into ideas for what you can make with it. With this book packed full of tutorials, ideas and Amy’s lovely photography, you’ll be inspired to craft with nature all year long.

Amy Renea is a crafter, gardener and photographer. She is the creator of A Nest for All Seasons—chosen as the “best gardening blog” in the Better Homes & Gardens Blogger Awards. She has written for Houzz, Hobby Farm Home, Celebrating Everyday Life magazine and Forbes.com. Amy and her family divide their time between central Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.

“This book is an absolute treasure and complete delight. I, and many others I’m sure, look forward to many happy hours crafting with nature.” —Frances Schultz, author of The Bee Cottage Story, contributing editor to House Beautiful magazine and former host of the TV show Southern Living Presents

“In a world where everything is packaged and made for us, this book is a breath of fresh air that reconnects us to our roots and natural resources. It’s about time.... This is how nature intended us to use it.” —Sara Bendrick, landscape designer and star of the DIY Network’s I Hate My Yard

“The projects and photos in this book are so engaging! Crafting guru Amy Renea shows you how to make unique gifts you’ve never seen before.” —Amy Anderson, author of Mod Podge Rocks! and Washi Tape Crafts

“This book belongs in the collection of every self-respecting gardener or crafter who takes great pride in creating something special with their own hands!” —Barbara Corcoran, owner of the crafty clothing company Grace & Lace and star of ABC’s Shark Tank