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Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America’s foremost organic gardeners—and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they’ve written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow.
The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook is two books in one. It’s a complete four-season cookbook with 120 recipes from Barbara, a master cook as well as master gardener, who shows how to maximize the fruits—and vegetables—of your labors, from Stuffed Squash Blossom Fritters to Red Thai Curry with Fall Vegetables to Hazelnut Torte with Summer Berries.
And it’s a step-by-step garden guide that works no matter how big or small your plot, with easy-to-follow instructions and plans for different gardens. It covers size of the garden, nourishing the soil, planning ahead, and the importance of rotating crops—yes, even in your backyard. And, at the core, individual instructions on the crops, from the hardy and healthful cabbage family to fourteen essential culinary herbs.
Eating doesn’t get any more local than your own backyard.
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I wanted to like this book. I own every book Eliot Coleman has published, and I've been expanding a garden which will eventually grow most of my own vegetables in an average sized suburban yard based on his techniques. I highly recommend them. But reading through his books I frequently come across vegetable I've never heard about (tatsoi, anyone?) and my hope was that this book would be a systematic, season-based guide to cooking from the gardening plans laid out in Coleman's books, with ideas to use the less common vegetables.
It isn't, unfortunately. It is a decent collection of a few recipes using fresh ingredients from a garden, but it isn't particularly innovative as a cookbook. And about 60% of the book is gardening instruction, mostly a rehash of the techniques laid out in Coleman's books, though this time with color line drawings instead of black and white. I didn't need that.
If you haven't read any of Eliot Coleman's work (start with
Four-Season Harvest if you are interested) and are interested in growing vegetables year round, and you don't have any of Alice Waters' season based cookbooks (start with
The Art of Simple Food, it's amazing), this is probably a decent purchase. If, like me, you already have a few cookbooks focused on seasonal cooking, and you already own some books on year-round gardening, then you don't need this.
By N. Anderson
I really like this book and feel that this book, more than other Coleman books, nails the needs of home gardeners wanting to experiment with extended season gardening. I like the garden layouts and crop rotation plans, the chicksaw, the portable greenhouse, and the plant recommendations. I've been vegie and flower gardening for 30+ years and this book just leapfrogged my gardening approach by a good amount. It's one thing to have ideas and completely another to have specific recommendations when trying something new, like 4-season gardening.
I have yet to try the recipes but it's great to have tasty-reading ideas for new crops like mache and claytonia, plants I'm planning on growing this season but have yet to eat. Doesn't have the great garden-table yield info that 'Victory Garden Cookbook' has (my must own garden-to-table recipe book) but I'm looking forward to cooking my way through the recipes this coming season.
Overall, this book rocks my gardening world and I am grateful to the authors for it.
By CathleenC.