The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook

The title of this award-winning book, "The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook," may be misleading. It is not just a cookbook. Part 1 is an excellent, thorough, and detailed guide to growing organic vegetables. Part 2 is a cookbook with recipes using the fruits and vegetables grown in Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman's gardens. Besides the detailed, orderly, and step-by-step presentation of the material in the book along with the numerous colored photographs, it may also have won the American Horticultural Society's Book Award in 2014 because of the style in which the book was written. It is so interesting; it draws you in. If you want to learn to grow organically, or maybe you have not been successful at it, this extensive presentation based on their years of experience is a must read for you. Once you are growing food you will enjoy using these recipes with their replacement suggestions for other plants that will be growing during other seasons of the year - along with her various interesting tips. I have read the entire book and waited until I finished to post my review.

Beautifully written book, comprehensive and complete for all types of gardening. Wonderfully inspiring to keep the home gardener growing year after year. Covers many types of things to grow and gives the reader wonderful layouts for how to plan and plant the garden year after year. This book should be on the book list of every home gardener and on the book shelf of every school garden. Also contains wonderful recipes, new and unusual combinations not seen before. Beautifully written, illustrated and inspiring.

This is a fantastic book! Yes, I have other books that Barbara and Eliot have written, but in my opinion this one is their best yet! It takes all the knowledge that the two of them have aquired over the many years that the two of them have been gardening and puts it ALL into an enjoyable and easy to read form. Like some have said, it's two books in one! It starts out with everything a beginning or even seasoned gardener needs to know on building the soil, feeding the plants, suggestions on what seeds to plant, when to plant, etc.... They tell you how to garden year round, no matter where you might live, in any climate. How to build your own simple greenhouse and other season extenders and the list goes on and on! And then Barbara even shares lots of receipes that she has developed, to eat fresh from your garden, year round! What more could anyone ask for!? If you can only buy one vegetable gardening book, this should be the one you get!

Enjoying this book very much. Like the ideas for a multi-season garden with recipes to enjoy the harvest.

I ordered this book knowing I had a chance to meet Barbara Damrosch at a spring garden show and wanted it to be autogaphed. She was as nice and informative as I knew she would be. I was a big fan of her and Eliot Coleman's tv show which I used to watch all the time. If you need garden advice for organic gardening these folks are the real deal. They inspire me to garden and do it in a way that is one with nature which I love. Great book with lots of tips and the recipes are easy to follow and also straight from the garden to the table. A truly remarkable book a must have for any garden cook!!!

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.

I have really enjoyed this book. It is a great starter for someone learning to garden and grow their own produce while also having artistic pictures and artwork to follow along

This book is great! It is 2 parts, the first being info on growing a garden, tools, soil, compost etc. The 2nd part is the recipes. The first part is really informative, I was really surprised how thorough it is. It also goes into detail about growing specific plants, from seed to harvest. The recipes are good too, there is nice variety which I like, and there is apps, desserts and main dishes. Very informative book, lots more than just a cook book! If you are interested in organic gardening and cooking with your harvest I highly recommend this book

Got this ages ago - all good!

As a new gardener I love this book. Lots of great detail! I love the cookbook aspect as well. I was looking for a farm to table kind of book and this delivers. They explain things very well. I know I will use this book as a great resource for many years to come.

Exellent livre! Superbes recettes Comme neuf!

The voices of experience, simple as that. When an author really knows his/her subject from years of doing it, the experience surfaces in his or her writing. And that's what you get from this book. I like the fact that the book isn't 100 % about growing. I like the recipe section because it shows a way to enjoy your harvest.

An excellent reference book for the amateur gardener with great recipes!