The one-block feast
Subtitle: an adventure in food from yard to table
By: Margo True & the staff of Sunset magazine
Contributors: Sunset Magazine (Firm)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781580085274
Subjects: Vegetable gardening; Cooking; Chickens; Local foods; Natural foods; Beer; Bees; Wine and wine making; Cooking (Natural foods); Sustainable living
Description: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
Notes: "100 recipes made with ingredients from your yard; how to raise chickens; keep bees; brew beer; make wine, and more; garden plans for 4 seasons"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The one-block garden warm-season planting plan and timeline; title: The one-block garden cool-season planting plan and timeline; title: Essential gardening guidelines. Before you plant ; How to plant ; How to water ; How to fertilize; title: Summer. The story of our summer feast ; Garden : summer garden plan ; Projects. How to raise honeybees (and make honey) ; How to make cheese (part I). Fresh chive cheese ; Oregano queso blanco ; How to make beer. Summer wheat beer ; Belgian Abbey ale ; How to raise chickens ; Recipes; title: Fall. The story of our fall feast ; Garden : fall garden plan ; Projects. How to make wine. Syrah ; Chardonnay ; How to make vinegar ; How to make cheese (part II). Ricotta ; Fromage blanc ; Feta ; Gouda ; How to grow mushrooms ; How to make olive oil ; Recipes; title: Winter. The story of our winter feast ; Garden : winter garden plan ; Projects. How to make salt ; How to make escargots (from your own garden snails) ; Garlic butter escargots ; How to make mead (Honey wine) ; Recipes; title: Spring. The story of our spring feast ; Garden : spring garden plan ; Projects. How to own (or co-own) a dairy cow ; How to make tea ; Recipes; title: Appendix. Regional planting and harvesting timelines for your own one-block feasts.