10 Awesome Gifts for the Grower in Your Life

Are you looking for gifts for the growers in your life? Growers can be hard to buy for, since we tend to be a self-reliant bunch.

Plus, we tend to be very practical in our wish lists.

Top on my wish list? Wood chips… lots of wood chips…

But when you are buying someone a gift you also want it to be fun. The following are a mix of 10 awesome practical gifts for the grower in your life – with a couple fun gifts mixed in.

Tools for a Grower

You could easily come up with a list of dozens of tools that could be useful when you're cultivating abundance. But most of those tools would only be used for a few specific projects.

Here are 3 tools that are great gifts for the grower in your life.

Hori Hori Knife

This is one of my favorite tools for gardening and maintaining my plants. The hori hori knife is basically a trowel with a knife edge on one side and a saw edge on the other, that come to a narrow tip.

I use mine for planting, chop and dropping, cutting twine, cutting old roots when digging, etc. A hori hori knife is the ultimate swiss army knife for gardening.

This is a tool that every grower should have. I love mine!

Flat-Free Wheelbarrow Tire

A flat-free wheelbarrow tire may not seem like the most exciting gift idea to some people, but it is incredibly useful and exciting for any busy cultivator.

Growers are always using a wheelbarrow for one task or another, and nothing can be more frustrating than finding your wheelbarrow with a flat tire.

After many years of dealing with flat tires I finally just switched to the kind that are flat-free.

This has saved me a ton of frustration! I’ll never go back!

Mulching (Bedding) Fork

Moving mulch – especially wood chips – with a shovel is hard work and frustrating. But most people who are cultivating abundance need to move mulch or bedding for animals on a regular basis.

The mulching (bedding) fork is much more efficient at moving mulch and saves a lot of time compared to a shovel.

When moving mulch or bedding, you don’t want to be stuck with a shovel!

Books for a Grower

There is so much to learn if you want to cultivate abundance - gardening, preparing land, saving seeds, etc. While you can learn a lot online, sometimes you just need a good book.

Here are 4 books that are great gifts for the grower in your life.

Square Foot Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles

When you start working with nature to grow more food, you will want to start exploring perennial vegetables.

These great vegetables come back year after year, meaning you don’t need to plant every spring. But most people are not familiar with perennial vegetables other than asparagus on rhubarb.

This is where the book Perennial Vegetables comes into play. This book is basically an encyclopedia of perennial vegetables, making it easy to identify which ones will grow in your area. It will even help you figure out which ones you would enjoy.

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

To truly live a self-sufficient life, you need to be able to save your own seeds. Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide for 160 different vegetables.

If you want to save seeds, this book will teach you what you need to know.

Gifts for a Little Grower (and the family!)

What about the little growers? Here are 3 fun gifts that the grower-in-training will love. (And the whole family!)

Fairy Grove Creations

Promoting a kid’s imagination through a bit of fantasy will help them be more creative in the future.

These fantasy creations are all hand-made from natural and/or re-purposed materials. Featuring dragons and fairies, these wholesome creations would provide fun for any little grower.

There are options to customize the color of some of the creations.

You can check out all of Fairy Grove Creations at the Permies Digital Market Place.

Kids Wheelbarrow and Other Tools

My toddlers love to help me with my cultivation tasks. Riding in my wheelbarrow is one of their favorite games, but they also loves their own shiny wheelbarrow that’s just their size.

Getting kids their own tools allows them to help out on the property and start learning how to cultivate abundance.

Options on the Amazon page to purchase a wheelbarrow and/or other tools for a little grower.

Permaculture Playing Cards

Playing card games can be a great, simple way to bring the whole family together. By using permaculture playing cards, these games can also start conversations about permaculture and how you can work with nature to grow more food.

Plus, these cards are just beautiful!

If you just want to enjoy these beautiful cards for the tips and information they provide, you can also purchase digital version for $3.00 through permies.com.

Gifts for the Grower in Your Life

What do you think of these gift options? Are there other tools, books, or fun items that you would recommend?

The items listed here are all products I own or, in the case of the fairies and dragons, from someone I know and trust. I use all the tools and books on a regular basis on my property.

Please leave a comment with your gift ideas! I would love to hear what you think would make a great gift for a grower.