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87+ plant-based dinners for easy weeknight cooking. This is a cookbook for people who appreciate healthy and delicious food, and want to keep it simple.
This one-of-a-kind cookbook was dreamed up by Betsy Freeman who noticed how few of her friends like to cook. A passionate home chef who cooks to relax, she started asking why. Most told her they just don’t have the time, or the interest.
Betsy, a full-time product designer, is used to thinking about more seamless ways for people to interact with the world. She decided to apply that same thinking to cooking to see if she could make it more appealing for people too busy to cook.
The result is a collection of vegan and vegetarian dinners that are low-fuss, low-mess, and high in protein. She lists substitutions for harder-to-find ingredients, shares her favorite shortcuts, offers tips on how to assemble healthy meals without using a recipe, and much more.
To inspire home cooking, Betsy illustrates her book with splendidly colored drawings that offer guidance and highlight what’s special about a recipe.
The One & Done Cookbook includes:
48 one-pot vegetarian and vegan dinner recipes
13 basic recipes that can be served three different ways (as pastas, soups, grain bowls and more)
7 versatile sauces and salad dressings
6 easy steps to recipe-free cooking
16 time-saving cooking hacks
Betsy shares her prepping and cooking tips in a voice that is direct, wry, and understanding. With this book, she gets a chance to demonstrate that cooking is as relatable as she is. See book excerpt.
ISBN: 9781734901160 (paperback); Trim size: 7.5 x 9.5; Illustrations: 4-color, interior
*As seen in The New York Times, Martha Stewart, and NPR
“It’s time to rebuild meadows wherever we can. . . Owen Wormser explains why, and how to do this, with oodles of highly readable, ecologically sound advice.”—Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home and Nature’s Best Hope
Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows. In this second edition of his award-winning book, he includes photos of meadows in progress plus more ways to cultivate your own organic meadow.
This how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability, regeneration, and beauty. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution. It is garden landscaping that is beautiful, all year round.
Meadows establish wildlife and pollinator habitats, are low-maintenance and low-cost, have a built-in resilience that helps them weather climate extremes, and can draw down and store far more carbon dioxide than any manicured lawn.
Wormser describes how to plant an organic meadow garden or traditional meadow, that’s right for your site. His book includes guidance on:
Preparing your site
Designing your meadow
Planting without using synthetic chemicals
Growing 21 starter native grasses and wildflowers, including butterfly weed, smooth blue aster, purple coneflower, wild bergamot, blue grama grass, switchgrass, and many more
Building support in neighborhoods where a tidy lawn is the standard.
He also shares 28 color photos that highlight the multitude of ways you can cultivate your own organic meadow.
To illuminate the many joys of meadow-building, Wormser draws on his own stories, including how growing up off the grid in northern Maine, with no electricity or plumbing, prepared him for his work.
ISBN: 9781734901184 (paperback) Pages: 185 (with illustrations & photos) Size: 6 x 9
This beginner’s guide to growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables is for home gardeners who want to raise food on their own patch of soil—all while cultivating a microbe-rich, carbon-sucking, regenerative food scape.
To help us get started, Acadia Tucker, a regenerative gardener and climate activist, drafts plans for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. She offers advice on:
How to prep and clear land without herbicides
Cultivate healthy soil
Plant food from seeds and starts
Fend off pests and disease organically
Grow 21 popular perennials and annuals, including fruit trees, herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, garlic, beans, peas, and potatoes.
Tucker also describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards, and the various steps we can take to boost a garden’s resilience. She invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building organically-rich soil, even in a backyard, we can capture greenhouse gases in the very place we’re growing nutritious food.
Growing Good Food includes calls to action and insights from leaders in the regenerative growing movement, including David Montgomery, Anne Biklé, Gabe Brown, Wendell Berry and Mary Berry, and Tim LaSalle. By the end of this book, you'll know how to grow some really good food, and build a healthier world, too.
ISBN: 9780998862330 (paperback); Pages: 168; Size: 6 x 9
Acadia Tucker’s long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing, harvesting, and eating them.
A regenerative farmer and gardener deeply concerned about global warming, Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant perennials. Sturdy and deep-rooted, perennials can weather climate extremes more easily than annuals. They can thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. And they don’t need as much water, either.
These long-lived plants also help build healthy soil, turning the very ground we stand on into a carbon sponge.
In this book, Tucker lays the groundwork for tending an organic, sustainable garden. She includes practical growing guides for 34 popular perennials, among them, basil, blueberries, grapes, strawberries, artichokes, asparagus, garlic, radicchio, spinach, and sweet potatoes, and wraps in a recipe for each of the plants profiled.
Growing Perennial Foods is for gardeners who want more resilient plants. It’s for people who want to do something about climate change and the environment. It’s for anyone who has ever wanted to grow food, and is ready to begin. (See book excerpt.)
Peek inside Growing Perennial Foods.
ISBN: 9780998862354 (paperback); Pages: 280; Size: 6 x 9
A self-described “charming” pig escapes a terrible fate, and finds friendship with a little girl. This light-hearted and beautifully illustrated bedtime story has been widely praised for inspiring compassion for animals.
Things aren't looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn't know where they're going but his nose knows there's something better out there.
So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to a good life.
The book includes a bonus section called More About Pigs, where curious readers can learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles, run really fast, and other amazing fun facts about pigs.
Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, said of the book: "May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are."
Peek inside Sprig the Rescue Pig here.
Sprig the Rescue Pig is the first children's book in our series on farm animals. Our second one, Gwen the Rescue Hen, is on sale now. Target audience: Ages 4 to 7
ISBN: 978-0-99886-230-9; Pages: 40; Size: 8 x 0.2 x 10
Winner of a Northern Lights Book Award for “children’s literature of exceptional merit.” Gwen the Rescue Hen is the heart-warming story of a quick-witted chicken who discovers the joy of being a hen after she's sprung from an egg-laying farm, and finds her way to a boy named Mateo.
Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that's nothing like the hen house.
Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken really is.
The book includes a bonus section called More About Chickens, where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts about chickens—22 in all.
Gwen the Rescue Hen is the second book in our Farm Animal Rescue Books for children. The first is Sprig the Rescue Pig.
Target audience: Ages 4 to 7; ISBN: 9780998862323; Pages: 38; Size: 7.5 x 9.5; hardcover
Regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker proves it’s possible to grow food without land. In this, her third easy-to-use gardening guide, Tucker describes how to cultivate bountiful container food gardens in pots, planters, and raised beds.
Climate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food—lots of food. By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your windowsill, your patio, or in your dining room.
Her book, loaded with helpful illustrations, includes:
Tips on how to grow 21 vegetables in pots, including tomatoes, peppers, and beans
Recipes for cultivating potted vegetable gardens
Tips on finding the right container
Information on designing for small spaces—and making food gardens beautiful
Guidance on how to raise crops in pots all year long
Tucker also describes how to maximize the environmental impact of growing food in pots. She offers tips on attracting pollinators, shows how to build microbe-rich living soil, and explains ways to ditch harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Her goal is to make it easier for anyone with access to a patch of sun to grow food, no backyard required.
ISBN: 9781734901108; SIZE: 6 x 9
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