The Edible Garden Cookbook Growing Guide

by Paul West

For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and community. In The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide , Paul shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no matter how much space you have.

Paul shares practical gardening advice, with guides on building a no-dig garden, composting and keeping chooks, and an A-Z guide of the veggies that are easiest to grow. There are also more than 50 of Paul's favourite family recipes - simple, produce-driven dishes that are bursting with freshness and flavour. And then there are ideas for fun food activities to do with your community, whether it's hosting a pickle party or passata day, brewing beer with some mates or whipping up a batch of homemade sausages.

The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide is a celebration of real food and vibrant community. It will inspire you to grow, cook and eat with those you love - and find real meaning along the way.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Food

304 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2019

About the author

There is more than one author with this name. This is Paul^^^^West, chef.

Paul West is a trained chef, a passionate gardener, farmer and popular media personality. Paul hosted four seasons of River Cottage Australia (Foxtel and SBS), is the author of The River Cottage Australia Cookbook and has a regular slot on ABC radio and ABC television's Gardening Australia. After hosting River Cottage Australia in beautiful Central Tilba, Paul and his family swapped their 20-acre NSW South Coast property for a city life in Thornbury, in Melbourne's inner north turning a suburban backyard plot into a productive patch.

Reviews

[Veronica ⭐️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

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The Edible Garden by Paul West, host of River Cottage Australia, is a guide to growing your own edible garden. This 304 page book is filled with glorious colour photos and over 50 easy to follow and healthy recipes with pictures of the finished product. I always like that finished product photo, it gives me a good idea of what my meal is supposed to look like.
Paul gives us gardens for the space poor, gardens for the time poor, micro gardens and community gardens. With chapters on worm farms, composting, keeping chooks and keeping bees, what to plant where and when. Paul has a big focus on food and community in chapters on hosting a pickle party, brewing your own beer and building a wood fire barbecue.

With bookmark flaps on the front and back cover this is one coffee table book you will find yourself turning to again and again for recipes to feed your family wholesome, easy to cook meals.

If you want to see how our fledgling garden attempt turned out, check out my post here https://theburgeoningbookshelf.blogsp...
*I received my copy from the publisher.

[Michelle Jorgensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely book. Great for a beginner gardener. The recipes look yummy and clever but require too many special ingredients I wouldn't have in my pantry.

[Brit McCarthy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read quite a few gardening guides for growing veggies and while this is not the most detailed, it's got a great layout, some really beautiful photos and does contain some good advice for getting started on your first edible garden. Some great stuff around soil improvement and composting in here as well as common veggies grown in Aus and recipes to use them in.

[Carmel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for someone getting started with edible gardens but there was no need for all those meat recipes- relevance?

[Jay Vallender · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received as a gift. A visual and enjoyable read. I liked the parts on the bokashi bin (including that it still needs to breakdown after the fermentation/green compost), the hay bale no dig garden and overall the low cost approach to either creating productive gardens or cooking a pig.

I felt the context/depth of the book lacked but this might be because it covers 3 components; grow, cook and community. Akin to one River cottage season condensed into a book.