The Edible Garden Cookbook and Growing Guide
by
Paul West
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Plum
Publication date: 24th September 2019
Genre: Lifestyle / Gardening
Pages: 304
RRP: $39.99AUD
Format read: Paperback
Source: Courtesy of the publisher
For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and community. In
The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide
, Paul shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no matter how much space you have.
The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide
is a celebration of real food and vibrant community. It will
inspire you to grow, cook and eat with those you love - and find real
meaning along the way.
Did you find yourself, a few months ago,
standing in an empty supermarket wondering how you were going to feed
your family? Me too!
Why do we leave ourselves at the mercy of
panic buyers when it is so easy to grow your own vegetables?
The Edible Garden by Paul West,
host of River Cottage Australia, is a guide to growing your own
edible garden. This 304 page book is filled with glorious colour
photos and over 50 easy to follow and healthy recipes with pictures
of the finished product. I always like that finished product photo,
it gives me a good idea of what my meal is supposed to look like.
Paul gives us gardens for the space poor,
gardens for the time poor, micro gardens and community gardens. With
chapters on worm farms, composting, keeping chooks and keeping bees,
what to plant where and when. Paul has a big focus on food and
community in chapters on hosting a pickle party, brewing your own
beer and building a wood fire barbecue.
With bookmark flaps on the front and back
cover this is one coffee table book you will find yourself turning to
again and again for recipes to feed your family wholesome, easy to
cook meals.
My husband and I both grew up in families
where there was always a large supply of vegetables and eggs in our
own backyards. We had tried gardens over the years but the possums
usually beat us to the produce.
This time we decided to put the garden
close to the house and used raised planters which could be filled
with good quality soil.
Our garden is going well and we have had
more hits than misses. It’s very much trial and error at the moment
but we have started to enjoy some of the produce we have grown.
The Edible Garden Cookbook and Growing
Guide has gone a long way in increasing our confidence in
choosing products for the local temperature and time of year.
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Paul West is a trained chef, a passionate gardener, farmer and popular media personality. Paul hosted four seasons of River Cottage Australia (Foxtel and SBS), is the author of The River Cottage Australia Cookbook and has a regular slot on ABC radio and ABC television's Gardening Australia. After hosting River Cottage Australia
in beautiful Central Tilba, Paul and his family swapped their 20-acre
NSW South Coast property for a city life in Thornbury, in Melbourne's
inner north turning a suburban backyard plot into a productive patch.
This review is part of the Book Lover Book Review Aussie author challenge