Old-Fashioned Fruit Garden: The Best Way to Grow, Preserve, and Bake with Small Fruit - Softcover

Jo Ann Gardner and her husband, Jigs, have been farming for nearly four decades, specializing in fruit, dairy, and herb products. Jo Ann herself makes and sells 75 cases of jams, jellies, and preserves a year. She also writes for a variety of North American gardening magazines. Jo Ann knows her subject well-and this breezy, delightful reissue of her classic text is a testament to the continued relevance of her years of gardening knowledge. In this updated and full color edition of The Old-Fashioned Fruit Garden, Jo Ann takes you back to the basics. Hers is a clear, concise horticultural and culinary reference book that concentrates on the small fruits, with a glance at tree fruits and wild fruits, too. It offers environmentally sound directions for growing and harvesting, as well as simple guidelines for canning and preserving. Moreover it contains a treasure trove of 175 nutritious preserving, baking, and cooking recipes-unusual marmalades, for example, are coupled with English muffins. From gooseberries and elderberries to classic strawberries and rhubarb-Jo Ann has got it covered. Whether an old hand or a novice, you'll find The Old-Fashioned Fruit Garden enlightening and informative, not to mention enjoyable.

Jo Ann Gardner has been growing, preserving, and baking with small fruit for over forty years. She and her husband jigs operated a small hand/horse-powered farm on a remote peninsula on Cape Breton Island, Canada, which inspired books, articles, and lectures beginning in 1978. Together they wrote Gardens of Use and Delight describing how they transformed a bare farm into a lush landscape using simple methods. Jo Ann and Jigs now live in Westport, New York in the Champlain Valley where they have established a small farm with extensive gardens