Gardening with the Moon around the World

Gardening with the Moon around the World: Ancestral Farming Knowledge is a practical and reflective guide to lunar gardening, exploring how people across cultures have used the moon’s cycles to guide sowing, planting and harvesting.

Moving across time and continents, the book brings together ancestral farming knowledge from different traditions, from the fertile Nile fields of ancient Egypt to Māori gardening in New Zealand and lunar-based practices preserved in Europe and North America. It shows how the moon has long been understood not only as a celestial body, but as a living rhythm shaping agricultural life.

Alongside these cultural perspectives, the guide offers practical ways to apply lunar gardening techniques in everyday cultivation. Readers are introduced to methods for timing sowing, watering and harvesting, as well as examples such as Māori Maramataka calendars and North American almanac traditions. The book also encourages personal observation through a year-long lunar planner, helping gardeners reconnect practice with season, sky and place.