Lisa Taylor (3)

The author is affiliated with Seattle Tilth, a local nonprofit that educates people about organic gardening.

This book is written in a very upbeat mood: none of the doom and gloom about the toxicity of the status quo, just exuberance about the possibilities available for growing your own food.

Topics covered include vegetables, fruit, composting, food preservation, small livestock, and season extenders. The gardening information is in-depth but the livestock and food preservation chapters are show more overviews – enough to get you started but not comprehensive. show less

I know Lisa from her classes at the Tilth Children's Garden . . . this is fun, informative, and not-overwhelming. She's into how to be practical with veggies (and urban-appropriate livestock, if that's your thing), not how to build some kind of off-grid utopian thing within city limits. Worth it for the bug information alone . . .

Probably a really useful book, if you have enough free time to garden. Just flipping through it made me feel stressed out, which I'm taking as a sign that I don't :)