The Little Backyard Garden Cookbook: Recipes for a Delicious Homegrown Life

Whether planting your first seed or an experienced gardener, this beautiful resource presents accessible tips and recipes for growing and cooking from your garden’s bounty.

Many would love to find their way back to a simpler way of life, and backyard gardening lends itself to this. It invites slowing down, making simple recipes from scratch, and, if able, growing much of your own food and creatively utilizing the outdoor space available in sustainable ways.  

Filled with sixty-plus effortless recipes (more than fifty dishes and a dozen drinks), tips, and beautiful photos, this resource provides the techniques and inspiration needed to embrace this homesteading lifestyle. In addition to recipes, it offers a visual guide for incorporating home micro farming into daily life: how to start a small garden to grow veggies, flowers, and fruits; care for backyard chickens; keep a stocked pantry with homemade staples; and use cut blossoms to surround a home with beauty. 

For the first time, the homegrown practices of self-reliance and sustainability—characterized by home gardening, cooking and food preservation, and raising animals—are brought together in an exquisite volume equally comfortable on the coffee table, kitchen counter, or even propped open in the potting shed.