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.

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!).

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!

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

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.

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.

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!