VEGETABLE LITERACY Book Review Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom. Written by Deborah Madison. Ten Speed Press, 2013. 416 pages. Hardcover: $40 For most gardeners, planting a garden is all about flowers, yet for cooks it is about food. Leave it to Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and leading […]
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Growing Beautiful Food
GROWING BEAUTIFUL FOOD -Book Review A Gardener’s Guide to Cultivating Extraordinary Vegetables and Fruit by Matthew Benson. Rodale Press, New York, New York, 2015. 252 pages. Hardcover: $32.50. It is said that eating involves all the senses, yet the first bite is taken with the eyes, notes organic farmer Matthew Benson in, Growing Beautiful Food. His […]
Ground Breaking Food Gardens
GROUND BREAKING FOOD GARDENS – Book Review 73 Plans that will change the way you grow your garden Niki Jabbour. Storey Publishing. 272 pages. Full-Color Illustrations. Paperback: $19.95. In 2009, when the Obama family planted a kitchen garden at the White House, it re-ignited a trend that had been largely dormant for the past century. […]
Epic Tomatoes
EPIC TOMATOES – Book Review How to select and grow the best varieties of all time. Craig Le Houillier | Storey Books | 250 pages | Retail $19.95 Craig Le Houllier is a man obsessed when it comes to tomatoes. Author of the new book, Epic Tomatoes, it all started when he joined the Seed Savers Exchange […]
The Vermont Country Store Cookbook on Food 52
Just as leaves turn from green to orange, our appetite changes from fresh to fire-roasted. It’s a good time to turn on the oven, and try one of my favorite recipes for Roasted Fall Vegetables adapted from The Vermont Country Store Cookbook, especially nice with a side of sausage, served over butternut squash ravioli. You might think that a […]
Smoked Maple Syrup
Rob Hausslein, a sugar maker from Landgrove, decided to kick his operation up a notch when a local chef asked him to make smoked maple syrup. Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind was launched when he figured he’d give it a try. He built a fire in his pig roaster, located next to his sugarhouse, and began to smoke syrup. The pig […]
Vermont Country Store Cookbook
The Vermont Country Store Cookbook, launched this week and will available in bookstores stores everywhere. Filled with heirloom recipes, gorgeous color photos of the Vermont landscape, and food photography by Mathew Benson and his talented crew. It is so beautiful you will drop whatever you are doing, and head right for the kitchen to start cooking. To prepare for our first author’s event […]
Pioneer Kitchen Gardens
Pioneer kitchen gardens are often a source of inspiration for my work, providing a framework of ideas, plus the tools used to cultivate, plant and harvest. For the most part, the designs were practical and efficient, with a comfortable blend of flowers, herbs and vegetables. When it comes to planting a straight line in the […]
Winter Food
WINTER FOOD, when eating with the seasons was once a way of life. It’s below freezing with a fresh dusting of snow, and finding a parking spot is a bit tricky. Yet cars are wedged between snow banks and there is a well-tromped path leading into the front door of the winter farmers market. Shoppers […]
Food Gardens
FOOD GARDENS. Perhaps of all the arts, gardening is the only one that smiles on imitation, and lends itself to the recreation of whatever the gardener might adopt from other gardeners. How else can we all start with the same three ingredients: seeds, plants and soil, yet the results are always different? Our gardens are […]
Compost
COMPOST is the recycling of natural, organic materials that decompose to provide nutrients that will go back to the living plants in your garden in the form of soil. What comes from the garden goes back to the garden. But how does compost work? The most important thing to remember about both methods is to […]
Happy Birthday, Wendell Berry!
“What I stand for is what I stand on.” – Wendell Berry Today, August 5th, we celebrate the birthday of extraordinary poet, writer and farmer Wendell Berry. Born in 1934, his wisdom and writing has transformed and guided everyone who has stumbled across his books or listened to him speak. Tonight, I am honored to […]
