Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including How to Grow 50 Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits

The conscious foodie's guide to growing and harvesting their own urban vegetable garden--featuring 50 profiles of common vegetables and herbs, plus 50 recipes for garden-to-table meals you'll want to make again and again.

From sinking a seed into the soil to enjoying a meal made with produce harvested right outside your door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who already buy seasonal, local, and organic food to grow the fruits and vegetables they love to eat--even if they live in a city. Dynamic, young gardening expert Willi Galloway reveals the ins and outs of growing your own food, sharing need-to-know information such as:

• 50 profiles on how to plant, grow, and prepare common vegetables, herbs, and small fruits
• specific instructions on how to harvest all edible parts of a plant
• advice on storing your harvest in a way that maximizes flavor
• basic food preparation techniques, including tips for unusual foods like radish greens and garlic scapes
• 50 delicious recipes that'll make the most of your at-home harvest

With 140 beautiful color photographs throughout, Grow Cook Eat is the ultimate guide to refining your gardening skills and cultivating gourmet quality food--from your very own backyard.

Author: Willi Galloway
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781632175359

About the Author
WILLI GALLOWAY is an award-winning radio commentator and writer. Willi began her career at Organic Gardening magazine, where she worked her way up from editorial intern to West Coast Editor. While living in Seattle she became an active participant in the urban agriculture movement, earning her Master Gardener certification and serving for six years on the board of directors of Seattle Tilth (now called Tilth Alliance)--a nationally recognized nonprofit that teaches people to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community by growing organic food. This work introduced her to hundreds of other urban gardeners, and like many of them, she has grown food in untraditional places, including on the roof of an apartment building, at the Interbay P-Patch (an acclaimed community garden right in the middle of Seattle), and in the sunny front yard of her home.

Willi writes about kitchen gardening and seasonal cooking and has taught joint gardening and cooking classes around the Pacific Northwest, including teaching stints with James Beard Award-winning chef Matthew Dillon at the Corson Building in Seattle. She has also hosted an online garden-to-table cooking show, GROW. COOK. EAT., with her husband, Jonathan, and she served as the vegetable gardening expert on Seattle's NPR station, KUOW, for eight years. Her garden has been featured in Sunset magazine and she has written for Vegetarian Times and Apartment Therapy. Willi currently lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon.