Willi Galloway is an award-winning radio commentator and writer who lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon. She writes about kitchen gardening and seasonal cooking on her popular blog, DigginFood.com, and pens the weekly column, "The Gardener," on Apartment Therapy's Re-Nest blog. Each Tuesday morning, Willi offers vegetable gardening advice on Seattle's popular NPR call-in show, Greendays. She also teaches a joint gardening and cooking class with James Beard award-nominated chef Matthew Dillon at the Corson Building in Seattle and hosts an online garden-to-table cooking show, Grow. Cook. Eat., with her husband, Jon. Willi was the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine from 2003 to 2010. The author lives in Portland, OR.
For those fortunate enough to have a plot of arable land, what can
be more rewarding and satisfying than creating a vegetable garden?
... Gardener Galloway encourages even urban dwellers to consider
raising their own fruits and vegetables. In this guide, she offers
instructions on basic preparation of growing beds, including
composting, an essential step for her preferred method of organic
agriculture. ... Color photographs accentuate the most
appealing qualities of both produce and finished dishes.
Booklist
Master gardener and radio commentator Galloway (former West Coast
editor, Organic Gardening ) concentrates here on herbs,
greens, legumes, squash, cabbage, roots, tubers and bulbs,
warm-season vegetables, and fruits, giving hints on planning a
garden, using good soil, planting, watering, fertilizing, weeding,
and dealing with insects and diseases. VERDICT This book is
recommended for all readers interested in eating what they
grow.
Library Journal
What makes this book stand out from the hundreds of other new
vegetable-gardening books? It's Galloway's recommendations for
varieties that thrive here, from blueberries to basil.
Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times
Like to eat as much as you like to garden? Willi Galloway's Grow
Cook Eat...gives a recipe for each crop.
Sunset
The pretty garden and food photography will draw any novice in, and
the conversational tone makes the book feel like the gentle
guidance of a best friend. Even old hands will make use of the
introductory chapters, a useful guide to basic gardening know
how.
Organic Gardening
For a comprehensive guide to growing and using vegetbles in your
kitchen, don't miss this book by Willi Galloway. Grow Cook Eat is
packed full of growing tips, harvesting ideas and 50 recipes.
Birds & Blooms
All cookbooks and gardening guides should aspire to be like Grow
Cook Eat, a marvelous hybrid by Master Gardener Willi Galloway...
Feast on this book and you’ll never garden or cook the same way.
You’ll certainly never eat the same way again.
Greenwoman Magazine
If there was a book that I could imagine that would teach me
everything I needed to know to grow the edibles I had my heart set
on from edamame and melons to garlic, tomatillos and tatsoi, this
would be it.
Spade & Spatula
A recipe that will reward you for the bounty you’ve brought into
the kitchen but won’t exhaust you with an additional grocery list
or hours in the kitchen.
Bay Area Bites, KQED
The photos are dreamy, the recipes tantalizing (Lemony Broccoli
Rabe, Strawberry Basil Ice Cream...), with plenty of tips on
harvesting, storing, and how to successfully grow what you eat.
The Seattle Times
...I can't recommend it enough. Not only is it lovely to behold,
it's imminently practical to use and apply. This is the gardening
book you absolutely want to have on hand this coming growing
season.
Ashley English, Small Measure
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