The Preserving Garden

The Preserving Garden is a stylishly illustrated guide on how to use garden produce to provide food all year round. Learn how to make a veggie patch or plant fruit trees in any space, including where to begin, when to plant, and how to care for your garden. From planting to preserving, each profile is accompanied by easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make the most of your homegrown produce throughout the year.

Featuring forty-three plant profiles with growing notes for starting or improving your garden, learn how fruit tree maintenance, pollination, crop rotation, composting, and soil pH can help create regular and abundant harvests.

The book includes scalable recipes and techniques for chutneys, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades, bottling, and drying. Make the most of your homegrown produce by pureeing tomatoes for sauces, fermenting cabbage for sauerkraut, drying cherries to use in muffins, and many more. Growing a preserving garden is an investment in your food future. When you use fruit or vegetables grown in your own yard, you reduce food miles, waste, and plastic use, reclaiming control over what goes into the food you eat—all very contemporary concerns addressed by long-established practices.

Offering a joyful reinterpretation of cookery illustration, this book is an inspiring and practical gift for the food enthusiast, whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere.

The Illustrated Garden Series description

Gardens are an endless supply of bounty. Many of our everyday needs can be met with a garden. This new series, referencing seasons rather than months, works with authors and illustrators to offer practical information in an original package on how to cultivate, grow, pick, treat, heal, observe, preserve, and learn from the garden.

Series includes:
The Kitchen Garden (2022)
The Preserving Garden (2023)
The Medicinal Garden (2024)
The Picking Garden (2025)