The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook: Over 100 Delicious, Gluten-Free, Farm-to-Table Recipes, and a Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Food

by Diana Rodgers

On her farm in Massachusetts, nutritionist Diana Rodgers has found a way back to a healthy, active lifestyle with a focus on nutritious and delicious eating, raising animals, growing vegetables, and balancing work and play. Anyone can have the same healthy, balanced lifestyle and a closer connection to their food—whether you live in a house in the suburbs, a farmhouse in the countryside, or an apartment in the city. The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook shows you how. With more than 100 seasonal Paleo recipes, guides to growing your own food and raising animals, and inspiring how-tos for crafts and entertaining, The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook is a guide not just for better eating, but for better living—and a better world.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Food and Drink

432 pages, Hardcover

First published March 10, 2015

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading this, it is on my Amazon wishlist since I rented it from the library. This is a great book explaining how to raise different farm animals and what you have to do daily, weekly, monthly for each animal. Diana Rogers also puts together different farm “maps” based on acres. She also talks about plants and living a paleo lifestyle. I enjoyed her book about in season living and getting dirt on your feet. Definitely makes future goals for our next house a bit easier with what I want to deal with with animals and what I’d rather buy from farmers. Worth reading if you want a country or semi country lifestyle. Great recipes at the end especially now that it is deer season!

[Caro Lyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is both a guide to growing food and a cookbook. Heavy cover and paper with beautiful pictures. It's kind of Paleo meets Prepper.

I expected the gardening information, but not the information about raising chickens, lambs/sheep, cows, and bees. I feel like I could order pullets, build a coop, and have eggs in no time. There's also instructions for making soap, candles, and hard cider.

The recipes are organized by season, so the meaning of early, mid, and late season will depend on your planting schedule and climate. The recipes are relatively simple but appealing. Roasted carrots with orange and tarragon. Lemon crepes with fruit (made with tapioca starch and coconut flour). Kohlrabi cakes with bacon. Garlic scape pesto. Almond panna cotta. Each recipe has an easy-to-read box that explains whether the recipe complies with a Whole30, nut-free, egg-free and AIP diet and, if not, what to do to make it comply.

There are some minor editing issues. I'd love to know what you do with the Andouille sausage for the Zucchini Cakes -- beyond cooking it and setting it aside.

[Shannon Hayes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Think: Radical Homemaker meets Paleo and Bon Appetit in a much cleaner kitchen. This is a gorgeous book, written to inspire the home cook who is suddenly confronted with the budgetary and culinary challenges of living sustainably with dietary restrictions. Rodgers presents beautifully photographed recipes for each season, and pairs them with welcoming prose that draws readers into a way of life where, even without a farm, they can grow much of the food that graces their table. Oh, and she explains how to do that, too. Anyone fortunate enough to get their hands on this book will be mesmerized by the pages, and inspired to bring all the ideas back to their own kitchen and garden.

[Liz Engstrom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extremely detailed info about farming, gardening, paleo lifestyle, etc. Is it possible to give too much info? Maybe... Recipes are very well photographed, easy to follow, and do not require many usual ingredients. I really like how the recipes are also coded to show if they are Whole 30 approved, how they can be modified, if they are gluten free, etc.

I was hoping for more recipes and less reading on how to start my own farm I guess...good cookbook once you get past the introductory materials.

[Julie Quates · Rating 4 out of 5]

An absolutely gorgeous book worth the read. Diana is a leader and warrior in the sustainable farming arena. I did find that the recipes called for ingredients (real food of course) that were a bit of of my norm with things I wouldn't easily have access to. But again I enjoyed reading this book and the photographs are excellent!

[Heidi Kuchta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like Diana Rodgers' recipes, and will definitely keep an eye out for all future cookbook releases by her! Her M.O. is coming up with simple, gourmet, and primal recipes. Other than the fact that she insists on the use of fresh herbs, her recipes aren't too fussy for me.

[Michelle C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is just a beautiful book full of interesting information about food and sustainability. Lovely layout, and delicious recipes. I love that the recipes are arranged by season.

[Kiernan]

The recipes have been quite good, but this is soooo much more than a cookbook, which is both a feature and a bug.

[Patricia Power · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great how to book full of tips and hints for all those paleo wannabes out there.

[Jill Bowman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful book. It covers every topic I can think of when it comes to creating your own homestead. I read it cover to cover.