Ebook: The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table

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.;The one-block garden warm-season planting plan and timeline -- The one-block garden cool-season planting plan and timeline -- Essential gardening guidelines. Before you plant ; How to plant ; How to water ; How to fertilize -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix. Regional planting and harvesting timelines for your own one-block feasts.