Grow Healthy Winter Produce Grow your own keeper crops for the chilly days of winter―and you'll be sure of putting the freshest, tastiest produce, packed with goodness, on your kitchen table! Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year round. This easy-to-follow book shows you how to grow your own fruit and vegetables for winter use and includes detailed cultivation advice on each crop, along with nutritional value, recipe ideas, and storage suggestions. Inside Growing Winter Food · How to choose crops that you can grow and preserve so you’ll have fresh vegetables over the winter. · Practical information and growing advice for all the most commonly grown winter foods: roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs and fruits. · Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques. · All the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing soil to using cloches and containers to dealing with pests and diseases. · Handy plant profiles cover how to grow, plant, care for, save seeds, harvest, and preserve. · Perfect for those with limited gardening experience, with gardens big or small. Lisa's practical organization and "start where you are style" take the intimidation out of growing your own food, and then she provides a few ways in each chapter to make your work into a delicious meal. It's enough to encourage any would-be gardener to get to digging. ―Stephanie Burt, food writer and host of The Southern Fork podcast I live in a region with four distinct seasons so Growing Winter Food is THE book to help me plan my two favorite hobbies: gardening and cooking. There’s no better feeling that seeing a larder packed, year-round, with the fruits (and veggies) of my own labor. ―Natalie Bovis, The Liquid Muse, author of Edible Cocktails: Garden To Glass ..a good and useful book.. Growing Winter Food is a simple yet thoroughly researched and easy-to-follow guide to becoming a successful home farmer even during the winter months. Its chock full of tips and techniques that are uncomplicated and don’t require a degree in horticulture. It alerts readers when, where, and what to plant for optimal yield. As a chef, I was particularly interested in the multitude of delicious recipes; Beet Chocolate Cake―yum! I can’t wait to head to the garden and then into the kitchen with tips and ideas I have gleaned from this beautiful book. Teach a man to garden and feed him for a lifetime! ―Chef Johnny Vee, Founder, Las Cosas Cooking School A good and useful book, filled with beautiful pictures and lots of good advice on things like making the most of your garden, including when to plant vegetables, herbs and fruits, and when to harvest them. AND, specific vegetables, herbs and fruits affected by bugs and other problems and how to help prevent. Interestingly, it says kale doesn’t have any known problems! Plant lots of kale, it’s good for us! Great recipe ideas, too. City Palate Magazine This essential guide for anyone who wants to maximize their garden's output all year round provides practical growing advice for the most commonly grown winter foods, including root vegetables, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and garden fruits. " Growing Winter Food is a wonderful resource and practical tool for those who want to have productive gardens all year. The pairing of growing tips with harvest information and cooking tips is a genius way to show the progression from seed to table that enthusiastic homesteaders and gardeners appreciate and aspire to." — Sarah Walker Caron, editor of HelloHomestead.com and senior editor for The Bangor Daily News "The gorgeous photography and easy-to-follow directions in this inspiring book take you all the way from the soil to harvesting to the kitchen. What better way to enjoy the health and flavor of truly local produce than by growing it yourself?" —Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, "The Plant-Powered Dietitian" and author of Plant-Powered for Life " Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year round." — Modern Mississauga Magazine DON'T LIMIT YOUR GARDEN'S HARVEST TO SUMMER! Discover the joys of growing and harvesting fresh produce that you can eat all winter long with this essential guide from home and garden expert Linda Gray. Growing Winter Food will show you how to enjoy a delicious array of healthy roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and fruits long after the thermometer—and the snow—have fallen. The author provides detailed cultivation advice for each crop, along with nutritional information, recipe ideas, and storage suggestions. How to choose, grow, and preserve crops so you'll have fresh vegetables over the winter - Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques for specific crops - All of the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing the soil to using container