The Food Lover's Garden: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Well

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Grow it, cook it, eat it! From the vegetable patch to the dinner table

Put off by the origin-unknown, not-so-fresh, pesticide-laden offerings at the grocery store Hungry for delicious high-quality veg and fragrant herbs, and looking to have some control over where your food comes from but never planted a seed in your life

Foodie meets gardener in this deliciously accessible, easy-to-use guide to growing, cooking, and preserving twenty-some popular, easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs. Taking the budding gardener from planting, growing and harvesting, to preparation of delicious, nutritious, and affordable meals, this book is a celebration of food in all its stages.

The Food Lovers Garden guides the reader through:

• Getting started with easy step-by-step growing instructions from balcony to backyard
  Simple, tasty recipes incorporating each vegetable and herb
  Meal combinations of two or more of the featured dishes
  Selecting essential kitchen tools and gadgets to maximize the harvest
  Canning and pickling recipes to preserve the rest

Beautifully illustrated with authors water colour sketches and photographs from her garden, this book is perfect for the foodie and budding gardenerfrom the humble potato, to pungent garlic, to the beauty of the beet, classic staples take a delicious turn with novel, innovative recipes. Truly food for all seasons and palates.

Foodies, new gardeners, urban homesteaders, and supporters of sustainable livingtake back your right to high-quality food with The Food Lovers Garden.

Jenni Blackmore is a writer, painter, micro-farmer, and certified Permaculture Design Consultant. Her most recent book Permaculture for the Rest of Us follows her journey from industrial Manchester to Quackadoodle Farm, a sustainable homestead in Nova Scotia.

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Jenni Blackmore is a farmer, artist and writer who built her house on a rocky, windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia almost twenty-five years ago and has been stumbling along the road to self-sufficient living ever since.