The Farmer's Wife Guide to Fabulous Fruits and Berries: Growing, Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own - Paperback

by Barbara Hartsock Doyen (Author), Barbara Hartsock Doyen (Calligrapher)

Includes growing instructions and recipes for 19 fruits and berries

Today, fruit is available in abundance, nearly year-round, from the supermarket. But there's something wonderful about stepping out your back door to pick crisp, juicy apples from your tree, tangy-sweet raspberries from bushes planted with your own hands, and vine-ripened cantaloupe bursting with farm-fresh flavor. Suitable for both beginners and experts, this book is the perfect resource for anyone who wants to learn not only how to grow fabulous fruits and berries but also what to do with the harvest.

In the garden, you'll discover how to find space for fruits and berries (even on your patio in pots) and how to select the right varieties for your tastes, climate, and growing space. For each kind of fruit and berry included, you'll also learn:

• How to plant and care for them
• When to expect the first harvest
• How to pick the fruits or berries
• How much yield to expect
• How to repel deer and other pests using inexpensive, reliable methods

In the kitchen, you'll find advice on storing and/or freezing your produce, plus more than a hundred of fast, easy, and delicious recipes for ice creams, ices (sherbets and sorbets), butters and sauces, pies, cobblers, crisps, and more. Nothing can match the fabulous flavor of homegrown fruits and berries--and this book will have you eating your own in no time!

Author Biography

Barbara Doyen is an accomplished cook, avid gardener, and genuine farmer's wife. Now past retirement, she continues to grow a variety of organic fruits and vegetables and experiments with them to develop new recipes. She not only gardens in the ground but also raises produce indoors for year-round enjoyment. She is also the author of The Farmer's Wife Guide to Growing a Great Garden and Back to Protein: The Low Carb, No Carb Meat Cookbook. She lived for many years on a farm in Iowa.