Farmer John's Cookbook : The Real Dirt on Vegetables

"The Real Dirt on Farmer John", a film by Taggart Siegel, is winning awards at film festivals worldwide.

This book features hundreds of seasonal recipes from Angelic Organics; a community supported farm that is hitting the headlines as a possible future model for shared ownership community farming.

It will appeal to current 'real food' trends, for produce that is organic and has not clocked up thousands of food miles.

Join the real food revolution with a true pioneer in the Community Supported Agriculture movement - Farmer John Peterson and his farm, Angelic Organics.

Angelic Organics is a leader in community supported gardening and biodynamics, helping to connect people with their food, their farmers, and healthful living.

This is the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" (directed by Taggart Siegel), which has won awards at major film festivals worldwide.

This companion volume features exciting recipes grouped by season and by vegetable, provides cooking tips, serving suggestions, and evocative descriptions of each dish, and teaches readers new ways to use a surplus of basil, cabbage, tomatoes, or whatever veggie is plentiful. Also included in the book is an illustrated Vegetable Identification Guide and tips on long-term vegetable and herb storage and preservation methods (such as freezing, drying, canning, and lactic acid fermentation).

Whether you grow your own veggies, spend lingering mornings at the farmer's market, or pluck your produce from shelves at the local supermarket, Farmer John's cookbook is an invaluable resource on growing, cooking, and storing real food and a guidebook to starting a veggie revolution in your hometown.