Growing Food: A Beginner's Guide by Jean Ann Van Krevelen

Garden writer and blogger, Jean Ann Van Krevelen, has announced the release of her new book that many budding gardeners have been waiting for, Growing Food: A Beginner’s Guide. Growing Food focuses on people growing their own food as opposed to relying solely on grocery stores and commercial growers.

The book hits the mark with today’s food-conscious climate on not only the climbing prices of produce, but the unhealthy pesticides so frequently added to our grocery store bought foods. Van Krevelen shows novice gardeners the simplicity of growing their own food at home from seed to harvest.

Among the sage advice on how and when to plant your vegetable crops, you’ll also find some fabulous recipes. Aside from the fact that delicious recipes are always welcome, I especially enjoyed the fact that the recipes specific to that vegetable followed each corresponding chapter; encouraging new growers to try a crop that may not have crossed their minds on the outset.

Growing Food: A Beginner’s Guide also offers easy-to-understand practices for battling pests and diseases in an environmentally friendly manner. Van Krevelen has enhanced her book with charming vintage drawings of gardens gone by and has sprinkled humorous anecdotes from her own website as well as blogs from guest garden writers. One such blogger is the comical Amanda Thomsen, also known as Kiss My Aster, has an excerpt in the book and is well-known in garden circles as a writer-to-watch.

With so many wonderful reasons for making meals with fresh produce grown safely and economically at home and this book in hand, nothing should be holding you back from picking up Growing Food: A Beginner’s Guide and having you own vegetable garden growing by this weekend.