No-Waste Kitchen Gardening

Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More

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Pub Date 18 Dec 2018 | Archive Date 20 Feb 2019

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Description

The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants.

Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you’ll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You’ll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.

You’ll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing. 

Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include:
 
  • Green onions
  • Tomatoes
  • Melons
  • Avocadoes
  • Potatoes
  • Carrots

Cut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening. For more no-waste gardening advice, explore the second book in the No-Waste Gardening seriesNo-Waste Organic Gardening.
The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable...

Marketing Plan

Key Selling Points: Filled with fun family activities you can do and observe right in your kitchen. Save money and provide a ready supply of free vegetables, herbs and fruit. A perfect book for locavores and lovers of fresh, homegrown produce. Will reach multiple audiences – gardeners, preppers, moms, rural living/green living/frugal lifestyle acolytes.

Key Campaign Activity Publicity campaign to hit media covering home/garden, moms & parenting, rural living/eco-friendly lifestyles.  Utilize SFG website, social media, certified instructors and National Square Foot Gardening Day to drive awareness and pre-orders ahead of pub date. Massive publicity campaign beginning sprint 2018.

Consumer: Quarto Knows and SFG social media. Video trailer. Quarto Knows B2C email campaigns. Giveaways at Goodreads, select blogs and websites. Pursue guest posts, excerpts.

Publicity/Media: National gardening and related media, rural Living/Green & Eco focus media, Daily Newspapers with home & gardening coverage, major markets, Regional & State Gardening Magazines, Magazines with Gardening Coverage, Garden Center/Wholesalers media, Blogs and Websites, Book Trade, Radio – Local & Syndicated Programs, Trade Review.

Key Selling Points: Filled with fun family activities you can do and observe right in your kitchen. Save money and provide a ready supply of free vegetables, herbs and fruit. A perfect book for...


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Featured Reviews

This book is great for people interested in gardening and those looking for ways to save a little money from their grocery budget. The tutorials for how to regrow plants from parts we normally would throw away are easy to understand and follow and prove useful for preventing waste. Each part of this book is very explanatory and tells you what part to use and how to take care of the plant once it begins to grow. I think its very helpful for new gardeners and experienced gardeners who may want to find ways to reuse their current plants.

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Thank you Quatro Publishing - Cool Springs Press and Netgalley for granting my wish to review this ARC.

This is a fabulous book on how to reduce waste in the kitchen. I loved that the author recognises that people are attracted to a no waste lifestyle for numerous reasons. Loads of ideas are given on simple ways to reduce waste, such as reusing water from
cooked pasta, something so logical yet I am guilty of not doing it.

I look forward to implementing lots of the ideas in this book and trying to start my own garden based on scraps. I have a long way to go in my part of waste reduction but this wonderful book, along with its colourful, beatiful art work makes me motivated to at least try.

Thank you for granting my wish.

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This is an awesome book all around! I've tried, and failed several times, to grow a plant from leftover pineapple tops. So when I saw this title on NetGalley, I was super excited to hopefully learn what I've been doing wrong, AND to salvage other kitchen scraps into fun projects. The pictures throughout the book are fantastic. She starts with the very basics of botany and gardening, so the reader has an understanding of how plants grow and what we're trying to accomplish with gardening. The writing style is simple and instructional while conveying the author's obvious passion for gardening and the techniques explained here. Once this book is published, I'll definitely want a physical copy to keep in my kitchen for reference.

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This is a really interesting and informative book and I can't wait to try out some of the processes of re-growing from kitchen waste fruit and vegetables. In fact, I think I may have to get myself a hard copy of this book as I'm sure I will keep coming back to this one!

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With the cost of food consuming more and more of a family's budget, this book gives invaluable information on how to make your food work for you. I have read several articles on re-growing vegetables from the pieces and parts you don't cook but none gave clear guidance on how to actually make the process work. Katie Elzer-Peters takes the time to not only tell you, but show you, how the process should work. Until now the only plant I had grown was a sweet potato in a jar but I'm now setting up a dedicated space in my greenhouse to see if I can follow her clear instructions and grow even more of my family's food. Wish me luck!

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I already regrow celery and lettuce from scraps, but I wanted to know what else I could re-use from what would otherwise be compost fodder, and this book had a lot of great ideas and information. From how to cut, prepare and/or save the piece of produce you'll be regrowing, to how to root or plant it, through growing and harvesting, this book walks through each step. I'm looking forward to trying many of these (pineapple or bust!).

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This is a good overview of how to transform veggie leftovers into food.
The book is very repetitive which is both its strength and its weakness.
Rather than highlighting a technique and saying which veggies it applies to the author repeats the technique for each veggie. This is useful if you want to get more out of a sweet potato, but a waste of space otherwise.

I personally didn't get much out of this book and to me it seemed like it would've been better suited to a blog post. That being said, I think plenty of people looking to do the right thing without spending too much time researching would like this book.

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It is 18 degrees below zero as I write this review this morning. Love the idea of gardening, especially year round in the kitchen, for free! This book is a wonderful resource on how to gain a second harvest from some of the foods you have in the refrigerator. I plan to try some of these ideas today!

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No Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters
Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More

This would be a fun book for families with children to use together to grow a wide variety of vegetables using items purchased at the produce market. Or, adults wanting to try their hand at growing a few items using kitchen scraps might find it fun, too. The parts of plants are described, illustrations are provided (photos and drawings) and how-to-do-its for all plants suggested are easy to follow whether using seeds or parts of plants that will become new edibles or provide edibles in the future.

Having tried the avocado seed to grow a tree I can say it definitely works as we are collecting avocados from trees we started as seeds over a decade ago. Trees may take some time but are rewarding just as some of the easier more quickly growing prjects might be to begin with. I am not sure I learned anything “new” but this was a fun book to read and one I believe I would gift to my granddaughters in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars

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This is an excellent guide for anybody interested in vegetable/fruit gardening or being more sustainable with your food. After an introduction to regrowing/propagating vegetable scraps, this book details how to regrow almost any fruit or vegetable you can think of. It's sectioned into 2/3-page guides for each plant type and explains how to regrow them and what you can realistically expect to get. The writing was very easy to follow and is perfect for anybody, even beginners. Along with the guides, there are some great photos and artwork to help supplement the guide. As somebody who only has indoor growing space, I was happy that they included plants that can be grown inside, as well as those you can grow in an outdoor garden. Overall, this is an excellent read. I highly recommend it.

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This was a quick and cute read. I could see many of these suggestions for regrowing food to be a useful visual tool for teaching kids about the garden. Great pictures, fun font, easy to understand.

Thanks to #NetGalley, I had an advanced PDF to read and review.

*All opinions are my own and I was not required to post a positive review. *

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Interesting stuff. Lots of things that can be regrown, but feels a bit short of info in places. You need more than sprouting instructions to keep a pepper plant alive!

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In the past, I've tried growing the easy plants from kitchen scraps. Green onions, celery, lettuce - those were simple to grow from the saved bases. Saving seeds to plant is also simple. I already have lemon and lychee trees grown from seed. This book goes much farther, using a much wider variety of kitchen scraps and different techniques. The steps are clearly explained throughout. I think this would be especially fun for kids, but also for adults looking to delay those scraps heading to the compost bin. I'll definitely be trying out some of these ideas myself!

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - Cool Springs Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

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This book is a truly inspirational one. A keeper. Makes you want to go right away and look for 'eyes' and cut tops, sprouting seeds or veggie bottoms.

Thanks to the publisher for the ARC.

P.S. (side note: it could have given news over the kind of soil to use too - just dung or a mix of coconut+dung or basic soil etc.)

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I loved this book! As someone who has tried to take kitchen bits and regrow them into something useful (other than compost) and usually fails, I was glad to have such a clear guide to show me how I had been goofing things up! Perfect for the dreaded black-thumbs (like me) and for porch gardeners (also like me!) and not just geared towards advanced gardeners with sprawling yards. Definitely give it a read if you want to essentially have endless lettuce!

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This is a great approach to zero waste, preventing the loss of little bits of food to bins that can easily be re-grown in an economical family project with just a little space and time investment. Much of our daily vegetables can be easily re-grown in modern kitchens to minimise waste and ensure a sustainable supply. Even if this is only achieved a few times, it's a lovely little effort that might help to prevent more single use plastic from entering homes. The applications here are simple and quick, easy to execute and (I would say) foolproof. The images are really lovely and instructions are clear, well thought out and a great aid for even a new kitchen gardener.

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I loved this book so much; I feel like it was meant for me to read because I am one of those people who have re-grown veggies from kitchen leftovers and what others would call garbage. I am strict when it comes to veggie waste in my kitchen; I save most of my veggie scraps to make vegetable broth each week. I feel like the things in this book are easy to incorporate into your own life and are small changes that can make huge differences. Like most how-to book and lifestyle-based books, this one contains so many great photographs that are eye-catching and really add to the aesthetic of the entire book. I love that it is grabbing and just pretty to look through even if you aren't interested in the topic. While perhaps this book is not the most detailed when it comes to how to keep vegetables growing or how to use them and what to do afterward, it still is an inspiring book and helps contribute to the positive view of zero-waste life.

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I have a large garden, and I hate waste, so this book appealed to me. I wasn't disappointed there such brilliant ideas that I hadn't considered before. I am now going to put these suggestions into practice. Recommended.

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A very interesting and inspirational book for gardeners of all experience levels. There are clear instructions and photos showing the steps for turning the parts of vegetables that get thrown away into new edible plants. This would be especially fun to do with kids, as well as being educational. A good place to start for living greener!

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No-Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters will make you look at kitchen scraps in a whole new way With growing tips and fun facts for the fruits and vegetables featured, the book offers more than just the basics. Some of the plants were things I already grow, but I learned several new things. This is a wonderful book for those wanting to put scraps to good use by turning them into more food.

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Like most things in our modern world, gardening creates waste, and we have to figure out how to most responsibly dispose of that waste. This volume seeks to eliminate waste in your home kitchen garden, through regrowing with kitchen scraps. Approachable instructions, adorable watercolor illustrations, and plenty of practical advice.

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A useful reference for those who want to reduce the amount of food waste thrown away. Helpful photos and clear explanations make for easy understanding of how you can grow from those bits that are cut off and discarded.
Definitely, this is a book I will be dipping into to try.

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