The Year-Round Harvest: A Seasonal Guide to Growing, Eating, and Preserving the Fruits and Vegetables of Your Labor

In "The Year-Round Harvest", readers will be prepared to grow and store an abundance of delicious food, even in the depths of winter. This one-stop, 12-month-planning guide features step-by-step methods for planting a garden ready to be preserved! Along with 150 easy and delectable recipes, readers will learn how to: grow enough food to sustain their families; work succession planting and season extenders into their year-round plan; preserve fresh foods by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling; create and organize root cellars; and dry herbs and spices from the garden for year-round use. With this guide, readers can forget the grocery store and instead enjoy delicious, nutritious home-grown produce that's in season - every season!

Author Biography

Catherine Abbott, the author of The Everything[registered] Grow Your Own Vegetables Book, grew vegetables in her suburban backyard until 2000, when she decided to make a lifestyle change and started a small-scale vegetable farm. Her website is www.your-vegetable-gardening-helper.com. Alison Woitunski is a writer with three years of professional gardening experience at a leading agricultural and gardening organization. Alison writes and teaches curriculum about backyard gardening, agriculture, food preservation and food culture.