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Book Review: “Tiny Victory Gardens”
“Tiny Victory Gardens: Growing Food Without a Yard” By Acadia Tucker, with illustrations by Emily Castle Stone Pier Press, 2021 168 pages, paperback, $19.95 Acadia Tucker is a market farmer turned container grower. After helping to manage 2 acres of regeneratively grown produce in Point Roberts, Washington, Tucker returned to her home state of Maine.
Book Review: “The Preserving Answer Book”
“The Preserving Answer Book: Expert Tips, Techniques, and Best Methods for Preserving All Your Favorite Foods” By Sherri Brooks Vinton Storey Publishing, 2nd edition, 2021 256 pages, paperback, $14.95 Sherri Brooks Vinton is an expert on all methods of food preservation. The author of “Put ‘em Up!” and Put ‘em Up! Fruit,” she has toured
Book Review: “The Maine Farm Table Cookbook”
“The Maine Farm Table Cookbook: 125 Homegrown Recipes from the Pine Tree State” By Kate Shaffer The Countryman Press, 2021 304 pages, paperback, $24.95 One of my favorite things to do is hop in my car and travel around Maine, not to the popular beaches or parks, or busy restaurants, but to homesteads and farms
Book Review: “In the Garden”
“In the Garden” By Emma Giuliani Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 16 pages, hardcover, $27.95 “In the Garden” is a flap-tastic and boldly illustrated oversized children’s book that follows a brother and sister duo as they work in their garden from the end of one winter until the start of the next. Using the seasonal movements
Book Review: “Good Husbandry”
“Good Husbandry: Growing Food, Love, and Family on Essex Farm” By Kristin Kimball Scribner, 2020 320 pages, paperback, $18 In 2010, when Kristin Kimball’s “The Dirty Life” came out, I was at the beginning of my farming life. With two summers of field work and dreams of owning my own farm taking root inside me,
Daytripping 2021: Farms and Gardens to Visit This Summer
Welcome to the 2021 Daytripping list, an annual feature in The MOF&G. At this year’s farm and garden tours, learn about seed saving, granite splitting, organic vegetable gardening, chicken breeding, growing fruit trees organically, sourdough bread baking and much more. For more farms to visit this summer, please check the event calendar on MOFGA’s website,
Book Review: “Floret Farm‘s Discovering Dahlias”
“Floret Farm‘s Discovering Dahlias: A Guide to Growing and Arranging Magnificent Blooms” By Erin Benzakein Chronicle Books, 2021 223 pages, hardcover, $24.95 Erin Benzakein is a well-known flower grower, floral designer and award-winning author from Mt. Vernon, Washington. For years she has shared her vast knowledge of flowers through her workshops, books, very accessible and
Book Review: “Herbal Revolution”
“Herbal Revolution: 65+ Recipes for Teas, Elixirs, Tinctures, Syrups, Foods, and Body Products That Heal” By Kathi Langelier Page Street Publishing Co., 2020 192 pages, paperback, $21.99 Everyone needs more than one book on herbal medicine. Some books focus on how to grow each plant and the healing properties they offer or how to make
Book Review: “A Small Farm Future”
“A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth” By Chris Smaje Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020 312 pages, paperback, $22.50 For anyone who has taken more than a cursory look at the industrialized system that feeds much of the world, there is plenty
