diff --git a/macro/src/gen.rs b/macro/src/gen.rs
index 7984cfe..bd5f115 100644
--- a/macro/src/gen.rs
+++ b/macro/src/gen.rs
@@ -120,6 +120,19 @@ fn gen_partial_mod(input: &ir::Input) -> TokenStream {
         }
     });
 
+    let from_env_fields = input.fields.iter().map(|f| {
+        match &f.kind {
+            FieldKind::Leaf { env: Some(key), .. } => {
+                let field = format!("{}::{}", input.name, f.name);
+                quote! {
+                    confique::internal::from_env(#key, #field)?
+                }
+            }
+            FieldKind::Leaf { .. } => quote! { None },
+            FieldKind::Nested { .. } => quote! { confique::Partial::from_env()? },
+        }
+    });
+
     let fallbacks= input.fields.iter().map(|f| {
         let name = &f.name;
         if f.is_leaf() {
@@ -174,6 +187,12 @@ fn gen_partial_mod(input: &ir::Input) -> TokenStream {
                     }
                 }
 
+                fn from_env() -> Result<Self, confique::Error> {
+                    Ok(Self {
+                        #( #field_names: #from_env_fields, )*
+                    })
+                }
+
                 fn with_fallback(self, fallback: Self) -> Self {
                     Self {
                         #( #field_names: #fallbacks, )*
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 3c9d00d..017a417 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ pub(crate) enum ErrorInner {
         err: Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>,
     },
 
+    /// When deserialization via `env` fails. The string is what is passed to
+    /// `serde::de::Error::custom`.
+    EnvDeserialization {
+        field: String,
+        key: String,
+        msg: String,
+    },
+
     /// Returned by the [`Source`] impls for `Path` and `PathBuf` if the file
     /// extension is not supported by confique or if the corresponding Cargo
     /// feature of confique was not enabled.
@@ -53,6 +61,7 @@ impl std::error::Error for Error {
             ErrorInner::Io { err, .. } => Some(err),
             ErrorInner::Deserialization { err, .. } => Some(&**err),
             ErrorInner::MissingValue(_)
+            | ErrorInner::EnvDeserialization { .. }
             | ErrorInner::UnsupportedFileFormat { .. }
             | ErrorInner::MissingFileExtension { .. }
             | ErrorInner::MissingRequiredFile { .. } => None,
@@ -81,6 +90,14 @@ impl fmt::Display for Error {
             ErrorInner::Deserialization { source: None, .. } => {
                 std::write!(f, "failed to deserialize configuration")
             }
+            ErrorInner::EnvDeserialization { field, key, msg } => {
+                std::write!(f,
+                    "failed to deserialize value `{}` from environment variable `{}`: {}",
+                    field,
+                    key,
+                    msg,
+                )
+            }
             ErrorInner::UnsupportedFileFormat { path } => {
                 std::write!(f,
                     "unknown configuration file format/extension: '{}'",
diff --git a/src/internal.rs b/src/internal.rs
index 3ee4e75..33816bf 100644
--- a/src/internal.rs
+++ b/src/internal.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! These functions are used by the code generated by the macro, but is not
+//! These functions are used by the code generated by the macro, but are not
 //! intended to be used directly. None of this is covered by semver! Do not use
 //! any of this directly.
 
@@ -24,3 +24,13 @@ pub fn prepend_missing_value_error(e: Error, prefix: &str) -> Error {
         e => e.into(),
     }
 }
+
+pub fn from_env<'de, T: serde::Deserialize<'de>>(key: &str, field: &str) -> Result<T, Error> {
+    crate::env::deserialize(std::env::var(key).ok()).map_err(|e| {
+        ErrorInner::EnvDeserialization {
+            key: key.into(),
+            field: field.into(),
+            msg: e.0,
+        }.into()
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 865f30c..24b31de 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -105,6 +105,15 @@ pub trait Partial: for<'de> Deserialize<'de> {
     /// values/fields set to `None`/being empty.
     fn default_values() -> Self;
 
+    /// Loads values from environment variables. This is only relevant for
+    /// fields annotated with `#[config(env = "...")]`: all fields not
+    /// annotated `env` will be `None`.
+    ///
+    /// If the env variable corresponding to a field is not set, that field is
+    /// `None`. If it is set but it failed to deserialize into the target type,
+    /// an error is returned.
+    fn from_env() -> Result<Self, Error>;
+
     /// Combines two partial configuration objects. `self` has a higher
     /// priority; missing values in `self` are filled with values in `fallback`,
     /// if they exist. The semantics of this method is basically like in