The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.
Explains how to start your own vegetable garden and how to cope with common problems, describing the round of activities from month to month throughout the year.
Showing how to grow plants and then how to use them in delicious kid-appealing recipes, "Grow It, Cook It" is more than a cookbook--it offers a fresh approach to healthy eating by getting children involved in food right from the start!
Describes how to plan and create a vegetable garden, discussing where to plant, what kinds of vegetables to grow, seeds and seedlings, watering, maintenance, and pests.
For beginners and green-thumbed foodies, this unusually all-inclusive garden-to-kitchen cookbook is part lesson in gardening and part collection of healthy, delicious, kid-friendly recipes.