Our New Book

Our New Book

Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard  is the new, essential handbook for beginning home gardeners.  Combining our knowledge of small-scale organic food production, environmental education and residential landscaping, we have created a thorough, easy-to-use guide for backyard farmers.  Including hundreds of instructional photographs, the book provides step-by-step information on everything you need to know when setting up and caring for a home garden including: garden site selection, garden construction, crop selection, garden maintenance and crop harvesting.  Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard will be your go-to gardening companion, always on hand to provide quick answers to your gardening questions.

 

Read Reviews of the book:

Featured as a “Best Beach Reads 2012: Green Home and Gardening Books for the Summer”  Huffington Post

 

“If only all textbooks were this pretty. Founders of the Seattle Urban Farm Co. have created a terrifically informative, nicely photographed guide to gardening – not just for Western Washington, but for any planting zone.”  Edible Seattle

 

“McCrate and Halm prove that anyone can develop a green thumb.” Urban Farm Magazine 

 

“With gorgeous photos and conversational writing, the authors lay out an easy-to-follow plan.”  The Everett Herald

 

“…presented in clear, easy to read language and gorgeously photographed.” Sustainable Eats

 

“The straightforward title of Colin McCrate and Brad Halm’s first book couldn’t be more illustrative of its contents: information, insights and step-by-step instructions…without jargon or talking down to newbies.”  The Seattle Times

 

“We read your article in the Everett Herald and were inspired to order your book.  We received it and followed it like a gardening bible.  Our garden is flourishing because of your help.  We have a chronological picture series. Anything that doesn’t seem to be going well we look up in the book…We started our beds and soil exactly as you said and it is wonderful.  More vegetables than we can consume!  Children and friends have benefited greatly from you experience and knowledge.  Thank you!”

Laura and Tim