Growing Food

Articles/Videos on this Site

Growing Vegetables? What Works and What Doesn't by Contributor Renee Shepherd - and she outta know.
Growing Edibles in Containers - new in 2009, written by Susan Harris with help from contributor Renee Shepherd.
Pint-Sized Planters Yield Bumper Crops by Kathy LaLiberte of Gardeners Supply Company. The top gardener at my favorite hippie Vermont gardener company has inspired me, and I'm trying these planters on my sunny deck this season — reviews coming soon!
Create a Neat Edible Front-Yard Knot Garden by contributor Shirley Bovshow in Los Angeles.
Patti Moreno's Garden. In video and text, Garden Girl Patti Moreno inspires uswith her "urban sustainable garden" in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.
Vegetables that MUST be Organic by Stuart Robinson
Mission: Dining off the grid is about a family that's awfully close to total food self-sufficiency.

KitchenGardeners.org is a very cool blog.
Eat-It.com is a good site about edible landscaping
The 100 Mile Diet makes the case for local.
So does the blog Eat Local Challenge,
Epicurean.com is a favorite of my foodie friends.
The Slow Cook is a great food and edible-gardening blog by fellow DC Urban Gardener Ed Bruske. His food blogroll is comprehensive.
Ed Bruske's multi-part video about How to Grow Vegetables.
Chow is a big, fun site about food and drink.
Vegetable Gardens is a great British site on the subject.
Mas Du Diable is a cool blog (in English) about growing edibles in Southern France.
Can I Eat It is another fun site about growing food — in the UK.
Review of Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini by Elizabeth Schneider.
Renee Shepherd's Please Eat the Flowers.

Cornell is doing terrific research (which you can contribute to) with its "Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners"
Minnesota Extension Service has a good introduction to planting a vegetable garden.
Ohio State's VegNet is chockful of great info.
U. Connecticut

Community Garden is the site of the American Community Gardening Association, and a good one.

The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman and others
Four-Season Harvest by Coleman and Damrosch
Common Ground: Four Seasons on an Organic Farm by Chaskey
Edible Garden by White
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food LIfe by Barbara Kingsolver (one of my favorite writers of fiction or nonfiction)
The Edible Rainbow Garden by Creasy
The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping by Creasy
Blithe Tomato by Madison is all about farmer's markets
The $64 Tomato by Alexander
The Kitchen Garden by Thompson
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Smith
Fields of Plenty by Ableman
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Weaver
Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini by Elizabeth Schneider
Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch

What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Safe Food by Marion Nestle
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan is one of my favorites (but I love everything he writes)
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation by Schlosser may change your fast-food eating forever. A favorite of my book group.
Food Fight by Brownell covers the American obesity epidemic, while making it kinda funny.
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Smith and MacKinnon
The 100-Mile Diet by Smith and MacKinnon
So Easy to Preserve is an Extension Service publication that people actually recommend!
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (the foodie bible) Harold McGee, 2004
The Kitchen Garden Cookbook by Thompson
The Fatal Harvest Reader by Andrew Kimbrell

Photo of container cucumbers by Renee Shepherd. Photo of lettuce by BC Ballard.