One Block Feast

By Margo True & the Staff of Sunset Magazine. You can turn your own backyard into a locavore?s paradise with garden plans for four seasons, do-it-yourself projects, how to raise chickens, keep bees, make wine, brew beer and 100 recipes made with ingredients from your own yard. Based on Sunset Magazine?s James Beard?s award-winning blog this will take you on an adventure in food from yard to table. This is about producing good food deliciously from a modest backyard but also about friends and community. Margo shares her experiences, trials and triumphs by taking an inspired dream and transforming it into four feasts over the course of a year, using only what could be grown or raised in their backyard-sized plot. She candidly shares the group?s many successes and often humorous setbacks as they try their hands at chicken farming, cheese making, olive pressing, home brewing, bee keeping, winemaking and more. This becomes a complete resource guide for planning an eco-friendly garden, filling your pantry, keeping animals, and crating made-from-scratch meals from ingredients you have grown yourself. Generously illustrated and easy to follow, it will inspire you to take ?eating local? to a whole new level.