Seedtime and Harvest
How Gardens Grow Roots, Connection, Wholeness, and Hope Hardcover
Seedtime and Harvest is a series of lyrical essays exploring the myriad ways that gardening deepens our understanding of the natural world and grows our capacity for care and connection.
All the earth is a garden—full of beauty and decay, untimely ends and new beginnings, promises and possibilities. You are invited to treasure these beautiful reflections on the soul-healing gifts the garden graciously yields, revealing that gardening can be more than a hobby—it can be embraced as a way of life.
As you explore how the garden grows roots, connection, wholeness, and hope, you’ll gain greater perspective on what matters most in life.
A Home In Bloom
Four Enchanted Seasons with Flowers
Through enchanting prose and delightful activities, avid writer, gardener and placemaker Christie Purifoy helps readers capture the curious magic of the garden and bring its life and joy into their homes.
This fully photographed guide shows you how to enjoy the many gifts the garden offers inside your own home, transforming your living spaces into places filled with warmth and wonder. Each season, Christie shares her notes on what to plant and walks you through easy projects that will surely become lifelong practices that help you bring the outdoors in.
Learn how to grow your house into a home in bloom.
Garden Maker
Growing a Life of Beauty & Wonder With Flowers
Much more than a how-to flower gardening book (though you will learn how to), Garden Maker is for those who want to grow beautiful things that reflect the glory and majesty of the Creator and bring a little bit of heaven down to earth.
From the beginning God made a garden, so it’s no surprise if you feel closer to Him with your hands in the dirt and the sun on your back. There is something profoundly soul-satisfying about creating and cultivating beauty. If you long to experience more splendor in your life, you can grow some of your very own.
Placemaker
Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace
In Placemaker, Christie Purifoy invites us to notice our soul’s desire for beauty, our need to create and to be created again and again. As she reflects on the joys and sorrows of two decades as a placemaker and her recent years living in and restoring a Pennsylvania farmhouse, Christie shows us that we are all gardeners. No matter our vocation, we spend much of our lives tending, keeping, and caring. In each act of creation, we reflect the image of God. In each moment of making beauty, we realize that beauty is a mystery to receive.
Roots & Sky
A Journey Home in Four Seasons
Roots and Sky is the story of our first year in an old farmhouse called Maplehurst. It begins when we came home to a house, but it describes a journey home. This is a journey through autumn, winter, spring, and summer toward the home first made for us. The home that is in the process of being remade for us. This dear, beautiful earth. This dirt. These trees. Those flowers. And faces. And loves. And stars. Jesus echoed the Psalms when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Roots and Sky is about seeking and receiving that inheritance. It is for anyone who longs for home but worries we can never come home on this side of heaven. Roots and Sky is about all the ways heaven comes to us. Today. In this place.
A FEW FAVORITES
It’s unusual for someone to come to my house and not have a book pressed into their hands. If you stay with me, I will place a stack of books I think you might like by the bed in my third-floor guest room. You will not be allowed to leave until I have slipped a book into your suitcase.
This page is me giving you a peak at the bookshelves lining the walls of this old farmhouse. This page is me slipping a book into your hand.
First, a few disclaimers. I don’t promise reviews in exchange for free books. Southern niceness is bred deep into my bones, and I know I could never be impartial. Of course, don’t let that stop you from sending me free books, if you are so inclined. However, if I mention a book here, it is almost always because I have sought it out myself at the bookstore or library or I have been given it by a friend.
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Here are my farmhouse bookshelves, week by week:
More Favorites for Advent and Christmas
Favorites for Advent and Christmas
Essays, the Amish, and a Picture Book
A Giveaway (Plus Advent Books)
Spring and Green, Growing Things
Christmas Picture Books for Everyone
In Praise of Second-Hand Books
Fairytales and Vintage Favorites
Books About Books (And Bookish Places)
Books I Don’t Know Why I Read But Am So Glad I Did
Chickens, Unicorns, and Everyday Magic
The Second Peek (In Which I Give You My Heart on a Platter)
The First Peek (In Which I Give You Vintage Cakes and a Great Novel)
p.s. Don’t forget to read the comments for more great recommendations. You can also find more of me and my books on Goodreads.