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Grocery Gardening

Planting, Preparing and Preserving Fresh Food

Jean Ann Van Krevelen (author), Amanda Thomsen (coauthor), Robin Ripley (coauthor), Teresa O'Connor (coauthor)

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Retail Price: $19.95

Plan your garden and your grocery list so your family can enjoy fresh meals all year long.

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.

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.

Book Highlights

• Jean Ann and her co-authors communicate with more than 80,000 gardeners monthly through their websites, blogs, pod-casts, twitter feeds and gardening articles.
• Emphasizes gardening and planting know-how with easy recipes and food preservation techniques, and includes advice on how to select the freshest produce to combine with your home grown edibles.
• Forty percent of the book includes fresh recipes and preserving of fresh foo
• According to the National Gardening Association, 1/3 of consumers surveyed plan to start a vegetable garden this year.

Who Might Read This Book

• Targeted for the new gardener who is starting a garden for the first time, specifically Generations X and Y.
• People who are interested in a sustainable lifestyle in a limited space.

• EAN (ISBN-13): 9781591864639
• ISBN: 1591864631
• Pub. Date: December 15, 2009
• 256 pages
• 8.00 x 10.00 in.
• Carton Qty: 20