GROWING PERENNIAL FOODS

Purple background book cover with green herbs and vegetables circling the edges, "growing perennial foods" in big orange and yellow handwritten font in the top center, "a field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits and vegetables" in white in center

Growing Perennial Foods, book cover

Client: Stone Pier Press

Stone Pier Press is a publishing company with a focus on the environment and food. SPP sought a book cover design and interior illustrations to enhance author Arcadia Tucker’s "Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, & Vegetables", an easy-to-understand book on eco-friendly gardening practices and growing food.

Project Manager: Clare Ellis

Art Director, front cover: Lisa Kelsey

Title Typography Designer, front cover: Katie Craig

Book Designer: Ryan Scheife

Black and white illustration of a cross section of the ground featuring healthy earth environment with plants rooting into soil and earthy organisms like moles, worms, insects, mushrooms.

Illustration of a healthy gardening environment featuring moles, worms, and microscopic organisms that benefit the soil.

black and white illustration of a cluster of strawberries hanging from stems with leaves and 2 flowers

Illustration of strawberries

"growing perennial foods" book showcasing front cover while standing up against a stack of the same books

"Growing Perennial Foods" in print.

"growing perennial foods" book showcasing back cover while leaning against a stack of the same books

Back cover in print.

"Growing Perennial Foods" book open to "vegetable" chapter page featuring an illustrated broccoli with title below on the right page, light gray and white patterning of herbs on left page with a hand holding the spread open on light wood desk

Title page for the chapter on vegetables.

"Growing Perennial Foods" book open to "Strawberry" page featuring an illustrated cluster of strawberries and a description on the right page, light gray and white patterning of herbs on left page with a hand holding the spread open on light wood desk

Strawberry section's first page.

"Growing Perennial Foods" book open to page featuring illustrated icons of plant pests and friends on left page, with text on left page, with a hand holding the spread open on light wood desk

Spread featuring creatures that are friends and enemies of plants and gardening.