How To Grow Food

How to Grow Food by Huw Richards and Sam Cooper is a practical gardening book-cookbook hybrid that turns whatever space you’ve got into a more productive, better-tasting pantry. It’s built for real-life kitchen gardening, pairing clear advice with flexible recipes you can scale up or down depending on your harvest.

Across 70 crops, Richards covers the essentials—spacing, sowing times, care and harvesting—alongside expected yield per square metre so you can plan confidently, whether you’re working with balcony containers or a full backyard vegetable patch. You’ll also find variety suggestions chosen for flavour and resilience.

Cooper’s recipes keep things simple and satisfying, from comforting meals to make straight away to smart preserving ideas like sauces and pantry staples for later.

Perfect for beginner gardeners, busy home cooks, and anyone keen on growing vegetables, seasonal cooking, and self-sufficiency. Add it to your shelf and start growing with purpose.