“Backyard Winter Gardening: Vegetables Fresh and Simple, In Any Climate, Without Artificial Heat or Electricity, The Way It’s Been Done for 2,000 Years”
By Caleb Warnock; Hobble Creek Press, 156 pages
Let’s face it. The past two months of the year are pretty much focused on preparing for — and getting through — the holidays. I enjoy the annual festivities full of “gobble gobbles” and “ho, ho, ho-ing,” but I am always ready to move on once the new year dawns. Time to pack away the ornaments and lights, vacuum up dried-out pine needles, and stop buying eggnog and gingerbread men. It’s an old idea, but it still rings true: a new year means the chance for a fresh start.
As I was thinking about “fresh starts” as a theme for today’s column, I knew that I would have no trouble finding books about the most common “new” beginnings — diet and exercise. Take a look at these subject areas the next time you visit the library, and you will find no end to the variety of plans and techniques available to readers. The same is true for those of us wanting to declutter and organize the surplus of 2013. Authors aplenty share their wisdom on how to simplify and arrange our overstuffed, complicated lives.
But I didn’t want to focus on the stereotypical New Year’s resolutions. No, I wanted something different, something more fun than counting calories or monitoring pulse rates. As it turns out, what I wanted — and happily found — was this week’s book, “Backyard Winter Gardening.”
