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| Homegrown Pantry : A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-round |
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| No.1 Why Crow Your Own Food? |
| | 1 | (14) | | | 2 | (1) | | Twelve Common Traits of Pantry Gardeners |
| | 2 | (1) | | | 3 | (1) | | Your Climate, by the Numbers |
| | 4 | (1) | | | 5 | (2) | | | 7 | (3) | | Managing Your Food Preservation Garden |
| | 10 | (2) | | Cooking from the Homegrown Pantry |
| | 12 | (3) | | No.2 Basic Food Preservation Methods |
| | 15 | (36) | | Five Basic Food Storage Methods |
| | 16 | (1) | | Cold Storage of Homegrown Produce |
| | 16 | (3) | | Freezing Your Homegrown Bounty |
| | 19 | (5) | | Drying Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits |
| | 24 | (9) | | Canning Your Homegrown Harvest |
| | 33 | (5) | | The Magic of Food Fermentation |
| | 38 | (13) | | No.3 Vegetables for the Homegrown Pantry |
| | 51 | (187) | | | 53 | (8) | | | 61 | (10) | | | 71 | (6) | | | 77 | (5) | | | 82 | (5) | | | 87 | (8) | | | 95 | (5) | | | 100 | (7) | | | 107 | (8) | | | 115 | (6) | | | 121 | (7) | | | 128 | (5) | | | 133 | (9) | | | 142 | (5) | | | 147 | (6) | | | 153 | (8) | | | 161 | (10) | | | 171 | (7) | | | 178 | (6) | | | 184 | (6) | | | 190 | (4) | | | 194 | (5) | | | 199 | (8) | | | 207 | (6) | | | 213 | (6) | | | 219 | (8) | | | 227 | (4) | | | 231 | (7) | | No.4 Fruits for the Homegrown Pantry |
| | 238 | (53) | | | 239 | (24) | | | 240 | (7) | | | 247 | (6) | | | 253 | (6) | | | 259 | (4) | | | 263 | (28) | | | 267 | (8) | | | 275 | (5) | | | 280 | (5) | | Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines |
| | 285 | (6) | | No.5 Herbs for the Homegrown Pantry |
| | 291 | (22) | | | 292 | (11) | | | 293 | (1) | | | 294 | (1) | | | 295 | (1) | | | 296 | (2) | | | 298 | (1) | | | 299 | (1) | | | 300 | (1) | | | 301 | (1) | | | 302 | (1) | | | 303 | (10) | | | 304 | (1) | | | 305 | (1) | | | 306 | (1) | | | 307 | (1) | | | 308 | (1) | | | 309 | (4) | | Index | | 313 | |
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Presents guidance on how to stock a pantry for year-round use, discussing fifty-five crops and how best to harvest and preserve them, including canning, pickling, and fermenting, and at what amounts.
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Barbara Pleasant has written about organic gardening and self-sufficient living for more than 30 years. Her books include Starter Vegetable Gardens, The Complete Compost Gardening Guide, The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, The Gardener's Bug Book, The Gardener's Weed Book, and The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases.
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*Starred Review* Out of the noise and disconnect that ended 2016, Pleasant delivers a guidebook of soul-saving coherence, practicality, thoroughness, and deeply seated wisdom, and reconnects our imagination to our soil to our labor to our mouths. The heart of the book is a showcase of 28 "pantry" vegetables, from asparagus to winter squash. Each entry includes explanations of varieties, of the "portion size" to plant for your household, and how to grow, harvest, store, and preserve it. Pleasant gives a conversational yet comprehensive walk-through, with photos, of the five preservation methods-cold storage, freezing, drying, canning, and fermenting. Her seasonal calendar of food preservation is a great idea, and she smartly includes a planting timetable working back from the first-frost date of autumn, though not a planting calendar working forward from the last frost of winter/spring (not a biggie; planting dates are still found in each vegetable entry). This one's a keeper. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
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