Canadian Doomer did a book give away supported by the generous people at Thomas Allen & Son, a Canadian family-owned publisher in Ontario. I won the Kitchen Gardener’s Handbook by Jennifer R. Bartley.  I agree with Doomers review, its a lovely book, on my first flip, I thought it a pretty more table book and for urban gardeners raither then someone like me on the homestead.. but then I settled down to give it a good read, and let me say, I am going to be trying alot of those recipes! I liked the style of writing, and just love how its split into season’s, no hunting for “where did I see that” you can look in the correct section per season.

I asked for catalogs to come with the book, and while DH liked the main catalog, I was thrilled to see a smaller one called Storey publishing, it turns out that this company sells some of my favorites, I was quite suprised at just how many of their books I already owned in my homestead/garden collection. Some of these books are on my list for review in my Homestead Books section  including but not limited to.

• HomeGrown Whole Grains
• The Backyard Homestead
• Cold Climate Gardening
• Successful Small Scale Farming- (LOVE this book)
• Serving up the harvest
• Food to live by
• Recipes from the Root Cellar
• The Classic Zucchini Cookbook
• Root Cellering

Like I said, I was surprised at how many of their books I had already gotten and have sticky notes on and use on the farm, I saw at least six more that I know I will be putting on my wish list for the future. If they are listed up there, they have passed the first reading and are keepers on the shelves for  current and future use on the farm.