This is both very lovely and very useful book! Inspiring and full of interesting information and projects, which practically all of them I want to try immediately (I am less interested in all things decoration and wreaths, but as for the cosmetics and culinary projects - bring them all!).
The photographs are lushful and the information gathered here will offer something new even to the experienced gardeners.

But mostly, this book has revived and renewed my interest in gardening - and when living the covid times, there is nothing as important as hope and positive plans. I feel enriched and energized to put my hands into some exciting plant and herb growing!

Inspirational and different. Harvest has wonderful projects for every season of the year.
I am fascinated by edible landscapes, and having plants that combine multiple purposes - beauty, food, medicine etc., and for people like myself Harvest by Stefani Bittner is full of inspiration and new ideas.
Here are edible projects, medicinal projects, beauty projects as well as arrangements to bring some plant life into your home. Divided into the 4 seasons, Bittner teaches about different plans, how to grow them, and how to use them - as well as basic recipes that can be mixed and matched depending on what you have on hand.

I love this books attention to less common plants and the projects to use them are also beautifully done. The part that I feel disappointed in is that these plants and some of their uses feel slightly inaccessible. I'm not sure these can be ground or even found in all areas and therefore limited to readers.

This is such a neat book, makes me wish I lived somewhere where foraging was a bit easier (city woes, city woes) and was actually good at gardening. The plants covered in this book are all quite familiar, no truly exotic wild things or very hard to find plants, but the recipes and uses for them are outside of the normal use for a lot of the plants. I really enjoyed how it was broken up by season and how it is not the typical tea or food recipes. Overall I really recommend this book to anyone who loves doing fun things with plants!

I am not posting review on any of my social media. I loved the pictures and the theory of the projects but I am not sure how practical this book is. I think it is perfect for coffee table book.

A beautiful book which broadened my knowledge of edible flowers.

Interesting book, great for reference and one to go back to again and again. Well written,interesting and informative. Thank you

I would like to thank Ten Speed Press for providing me with a free electronic ARC of this book, via Netgalley, in exchange for an open and honest review.

Wow, what an interesting book! I really wasn’t too sure what to expect from it… but I did indeed love what I got. I was thinking it was going to be a cook book on how to grow, harvest and eat in season… but no. It was that and then some! Cooking, decorating, healthcare, cleaning – all in season and from locally sourced materials. Wonderful.

And, being a Ten Speed Press book it was simply filled with gorgeous images of the materials to use and the things they can be made into. I do love their photographic imagery as it just adds to the glorious indulgence of the books they produce.

But I have to admit, being the open and honest gal that I am, that there was just something that didn’t click with me and ‘Harvest’. I’m not too sure if it was because it was a bit of a book of everything so – to me – gave it more of a coffee table/ waiting room read than a useful book. Or it might have been the fact I am the wrong audience, locationally, for this book. As in, I am in Australia where Ten Speed Press caters to a North American audience. This is totally my fault and something I accept and expect when asking to review their books… But I do love the things they produce and so I find myself drawn again and again to their work.

Both these faults lay with me the reader and not the book. I just didn’t click to it liked I had hoped to, but it is a simply amazing, fact filled, creatively delicious tome. Okay? Blame me, not ‘Harvest’!

Would I recommend this book to others?

Actually, this is a hard one to answer simply due to the feeling of “coffee table book” I got from ‘Harvest’. As in, a book that is displayed on your coffee table and occasionally thumbed through for mild entertainment but not actually a book you would read to use and replicate the recipes and ideas within the pages. BUT! As I have said, this is just my opinion and, seriously, what the heck would I know, right?

Still, I would tell people this feeling of mine but then tell them to go check it out for themselves as my failure to connect with it doesn’t make it a bad book. It makes me a bad choice of audience.

Would I buy this book for myself?

Sadly no. I mean, I can see myself borrowing it from the library again and again when I want help with something in season… if it is covered, might not be due to my location… but I can’t see myself owning it. I mean, I don’t even own a coffee table… I don’t drink coffee! ;-)

In summary: a factually and visually stunning book to help you use what grows around you and in season. Just not a book for me.

Beautifully presented and photographed, this book offers such a dazzling array of possibilities for the use of flowers, herbs and fruits. Edibles or salves, scrubs or dyes, all of these projects are within the reach of most people. Recommended for any gardener or non grower.

A great book about the vegetables and fruits we can grow and how to use them with a well explained recipe.

47 garden plants from flowers to herbs to vegetables. Uses of each in recipes, dyes, and lip balm. Flower arrangements and vinegars. Beautiful photographs, fascinating book!

the photos are inspiring and beautiful, and the recipes are fun to read. I enjoyed this as a "coffee table" read. However, as an urban person, it's unlikely that I'd be able to find most of these things in my neighborhood, my garden or even my green market. That said, I loved it anyway --if I ever found a way to grow any of these things the book would be a fabulous guide to how to enjoy them more than in just a visual way.