Build a wholesome life focused on the seasonality of the food you grow with this chic and savvy guide to creating, tending, and sharing the goodness of a kitchen garden.
While kitchen gardening brings freshness and flavor to your dinner plate, it's no longer just about growing food. Kitchen gardening is also a lifestyle choice. It's a unique way to show the world your commitment to the health of your family and your planet, reduce your food miles, and take control of what you feed your family. A one-of-a-kind kitchen garden is also an opportunity to show off your personal style and create a peaceful escape from the busyness of today's world. It's a chance to disconnect from the hustle and reconnect to what matters most-food, family, and your connection to the natural world.
In Kitchen Garden Living, author and Kitchen Garden Society founder Bailey Van Tassel guides you through the process of establishing a kitchen garden of your own, helping you with all of the necessary steps to get your new garden started and holding your hand all the way through to the harvest and beyond. Organized by chapters titled Plan, Grow, Tend, Make, Gather, Connect, and Inspire, the projects and lessons found here are designed to help you succeed, no matter the size or location of your kitchen garden.
Includes inspiration for:
Finding your preferred garden style
Designing and laying out the beds
Living and eating seasonally
Caring for the garden while also caring for yourself
Preparing and preserving the harvest
Getting family involved
And so much more
With this inspiring and supportive book as your guide, bring value to your family and your community in ways you never thought possible.
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"Kitchen Garden Living is a wonderful book, filled with all the inspiration and knowledge you need to start living in-tune with nature and make the most of every growing season." * Willow Crossley, the UK's 'Queen of Flowers', author of The Art of Handmade Living and The Wild Jour * "Some of the standouts from this book include: planning a garden, developing a water plan, consideration of raised beds vs in ground planting, offering a list of flowers that are perfect to combine with edible plants, 10 great garden jobs for kids, natural approaches to preventing and controlling pests, edible flowers, keeping a garden journal, how to plant seeds, and label plants." -- Barbara Keer * Splash Magazines * "This gardening resource provides excellent information for hobby gardeners of all levels. It will be a popular selection in a variety of communities and collections." * Library Journal * "The book has the look and feel of a lifestyle book, but it is detailed enough to guide a beginning gardener from concept to harvest and beyond." * The American Gardener * "All the information is approachable to just about anyone, filled with fantastic information, gorgeous pictures, and relatable stories that any busy family can understand when caring for plants." -- Susan Bewley * Budget Earth *
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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978-0-7603-8900-3 (9780760389003)
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Bailey Van Tassel (@baileyvantassel) is founder of The Kitchen Garden Society and host of The Garden Culture podcast. She shares her gardening skills online, as well as her personal story of growing up on a farm and yet ending up reluctantly in suburbia. Determined to bloom where she is planted, Bailey focuses on kitchen gardening and cut flowers, showcasing how you can grow in any amount of space with a limited amount of time. She gardens with her three young children beside her, believing that living seasonally and staying grounded to the natural world is vitally important to creating a meaningful life no matter where you are.
