How to Store Your Own Garden Produce
How to Store Your Garden Produce is an updated version of a classic book, to show that anyone with even half an acre of land can feed a family of four for an entire year.
The issue is that most produce will harvest in summer and summer, so many gardeners struggle to use up all their fresh fruits and vegetables, before it spoils.
With proper storage techniques, you can enjoy home-grown food all year, while also lowering food miles, avoiding plastic packaging and saving money.
Read up on food safety for people and pets.
Learn how to create pet-friendly gardens and wildlife-friendly gardens (use fruit protection bags over netting). Also learn how to stop birds flying into windows.
This book is jam-packed with creative storage techniques and beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve produce through dehydrating, freezing, fermenting and pickling.
Illustrated with photographs throughout, the book features a useful A to Z of garden produce. Each entry includes recommended varieties, improved storage methods and vegan recipes to make the most of your harvest. Recipes include:
- Strawberry wine
- Peach chutney
- Mushroom ketchup
- Celeriac soup
Piers Warren grows all manner of fruits and vegetables in his garden and greenhouse, and is keen to promote organic principles of farming. He also wrote a wonderful book with his daughter: The Vegan Cook and Gardener. He lives in Norfolk.
