December 2023 MBR The Gardening Shelf

The Gardening Shelf

The Preserving Garden
Jo Turner
Thames & Hudson, Inc.
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com
9781760763824, $29.95, HC, 208pp

https://www.amazon.com/Preserving-Garden-Jo-Turner/dp/1760763829

Synopsis: With the publication of "The Preserving Garden", gardening expert Jo Turner has created a stylishly illustrated guide on how to create a garden that will provide food all year round. Featuring forty-three plant profiles with growing notes for starting or improving your garden, "The Preserving Garden" provides advice on where to begin, when to plant, and how to care for your garden.

Each plant profile is accompanied by easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make the most of your homegrown produce throughout the year. Including scalable recipes and techniques for chutneys, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades, bottling, and drying, preserve your garden bounty by pureeing tomatoes for sauces, fermenting your cabbage for sauerkraut, drying your cherries to use in muffins, and much more.

Growing a preserving garden is an investment in your food future. When you are using fruit or vegetables grown in your own yard you are reducing food miles, waste, and plastic use and reclaiming control over what goes into the food you eat. Offering a joyful reinterpretation of cooking illustration, this book is an inspiring and practical gift for the food enthusiast, whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere.

Critique: Beautifully enhanced for the aspiring gardener with some 150 color illustrations, "The Preserving Garden" also features four pages of Notes and a three page Index. Thoroughly 'user friendly' in tone, informative content, organization and presentation, "The Preserving Garden" is an invaluable and inspiring pick for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Vegetable Gardening, Canning and Preservation collections.

Editorial Note: Jo Turner is the great granddaughter of a gardener from East Sussex, U.K., the granddaughter of a woman who grew and preserved fruit and vegetables to feed her large family, and the daughter of a passionate flower gardener and jam maker. She lives on fifty acres of native bush in Australia and battles the heat of long summers growing fruit and vegetables.

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