Grocery Gardening includes more than 30 fruit, vegetable and herb recommendations, with garden planning, planting, and harvesting information, and healthy recipes for fresh additions to every meal. In addition to tips on knowing when to pick your vegetables, the authors offer advice on how to the select the freshest product at your local market and select comlementary ingredients to combine with your home-grown edibles. Jean Ann Van Krevelen together with her co-authors who are all food and gardening cmmunicators, encourage gardeners and non-gardeners alike to plan meals based on what is in season. Whether you buy local or grow your own, the Grocery Gardening will delight your family with its seasonal freshness. The authors also include a chapter on preserving your harvest, with tips for freezing, drying, canning and preserving. Full-color images highlight the fresh, seasonal offerings. From seed to table and beyond - this book is a must have for the busy gardener who wants to learn how to get the most out of what they grow. Entertaining, funny, straight-forward and no fluff makes this book an easy read. You get valuable info from every sentence in it!
About the Authors:
Jean Ann Van Krevelen is one of the most influential gardening communicators in the country. Through various blogs, Facebook pages, websites, and through her enormous list of Twitter followers, Jean Ann inspires, educates, and challenges tens of thousands of gardeners each month. Amanda Thomsen is garden designer, master gardener and plantswoman who communicates her somewhat to gardeners across the country as a contributing editor and writer for Horticulture Magazine's website and blogs. She is also one of the most powerful communicators in gardening social media.Robin Wedewer is a writer, prolific cook and in demand garden speaker who educates gardeners on how best to create a productive garden that is also pleasing to the eye. She is the national garden columnist for Examiner.com and an influential blogger and communicator. Teresa O'Connor is a Master Gardener and garden writer who reaches thousands of gardeners through her writing at Gardening How-To Magazine and the National Home Gardening Club website.
- Pages: 255
- Publish Date: 2/1/2010
- Publisher: Cool Springs
- ISBN: 9781591864639
