Grocery Gardening

Grocery Gardening includes more than 25 fruit, vegetable and herb recommendations, with garden planning, planting, and harvesting information, and healthy recipes for fresh produce at every meal. In addition to tips on when to pick your home grown vegetables, the authors offer advice on how to select the freshest produce at your local market and select complementary ingredients to combine with your home-grown edible. Jean Ann Van Krevelen, together with food and gardening experts, encourage gardeners and non-gardener's alike to plan meals based on what is in season. Whether you buy local or grow your own, Grocery Gardening recipes 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. Soft cover, 10 x 8, 255 pages. Grocery Gardening combines wit, wisdom, and well-researched information for planning and planting your food garden to meet your family's needs and food preferences. The authors have a well-established social media presence with podcasts, blogs, Facebook profiles, Twitter followers, and video/photo sharing sites, that bring the wisdom of their online community to the pages of this book. Paperback, 8.00 X 10.00, 255 pages, illustrated with photos.