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Youve heard of farm-to-table? Try garden-to-glass!Grow your own ingredients for cocktails, mocktails, teas, and infusions, for truly fresh and delightful drinksInstructional guide offers advice for planting, maintaining, harvesting, and using each fresh, homegrown ingredient64 plant profiles of the best drink ingredients you can grow yourself, including rhubarb, apple mint, lemon balm, kale, chamomile, beet, ginger, celery, and more24 recipes for cocktails, alcohol-free juices, teas, syrups, shrubs, and infusions to create using the ingredients youve grownOver 350 photos offer inspiration and guidance, from picking your plants and arranging your garden to mixology and building beautiful drinks in the glassTheres nothing quite like a thirst-quenching beverage, especially when its made with fresh ingredients you grew and picked from your very own garden!Inside this informative book, youll learn which leaves, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and roots to grow so you can enjoy them from your glass or mug. Explore more than 60 plant profiles for easy-to-grow ingredients that are perfect for cultivating a tasty beverage garden, plus dozens of delicious beverage recipes, from a lavender mojito or a garden gin and tonic to veggie juice, mint iced tea, smoothies, and more!Filled with beautiful photography, helpful tips, and details on how to plant, maintain, and harvest each home-grown ingredient, this gardening guide also provides expert information on the best gardening practices, 9 garden layout designs, and instructions for preparing and preserving your bounty.Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions includes a variety of delicious recipes for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to enjoy all year-round! Also included are directions for making your own simple syrups, tinctures, and purees.Written by gardening expert and author of Grow Your Own Tea Garden, Jodi Hemler, and filled with valuable insight, this book will inspire any gardener - whether you have a spacious backyard, a small garden set-up, or just a few apartment windowsills - to enjoy your bounty in a refreshing new way.With Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions, youll discover the joy and satisfaction of creating your very own garden-to-glass drinks. Cheers!"This book takes you from point A on what to plant to point B on how make a cocktail from the garden." - Adam Levy, The Alcohol Professor, Founder of the New York International Spirits Competition"If youve ever wanted to mix two of your passions into one cocktail, Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions by Jodi Helmer is the book for you. This gardening how-to meets cocktail recipe book lets you use easy ingredients from your very own garden to make some of the most interesting and flavorful cocktails youve ever experienced." - Bill Corcoran, Producer & Co-Host of WILK Friday BeerBuzz, Writer for MyBeerBuzz
About the Author
Jodi Helmer writes about food, farming and the environment. Her articles have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, NPR, Smithsonian.com, Modern Farmer, Sierra, FFA New Horizons, Farm Life, Farming and Hobby Farms among others; she is also the author of six books, including the latest releases, Protecting Pollinators: How to Save the Creatures that Feed Us (Island Press 2019) and Growing Your Own Tea Garden: The Guide to Growing and Harvesting Flavorful Teas in Your Backyard (CompanionHouse Books, 2019) . When Jodi isn't writing, she raises chickens, goats, bees and one very spoiled donkey on a small homestead in rural North Carolina. Learn more about her work at www.jodihelmer.com.
