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Haspel, Tamar,

To boldly grow : finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard / Tamar Haspel. - xxii, 246 pages ; 22 cm

Includes index.

Prologue: The first-hand food -- Part I: Gardening -- Part II: Chickens -- Part III: Fishing -- Part IV: Foraging -- Part V: Turkeys -- Part VI: Hunting -- Epilogue: Dinner, which is the point.

"Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us"--

ISBN: 9780593419533 0593419537

LCCN: 2021054167

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC253393 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020533057 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Haspel, Tamar.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Subsistence farming--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Subsistence fishing--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Subsistence hunting--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Self-reliant living--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Women journalists--United States--Biography.
Gardeners--United States--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Handbooks and manuals.
Autobiographies.