Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook

Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook is your guide to enjoying over 90 different crops grown by community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms across North America. With this book, you'll never wonder what to do with your CSA box again.

This is a comprehensive resource, whether you get your produce from a CSA box, farmers market, or grocery store. Arranged by season, Bounty from the Box contains over 350 delicious recipes--many vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free. Each crop features extensive information on nutrition, selection, storage, cleaning, cooking techniques, and serving ideas.

Far more than just a cookbook, Bounty also gives readers deep insight into what it takes to get food from seed to plate. It showcases exceptional American CSA farms that strengthen their communities by providing not just food but also employment, education, housing, environmental stewardship, compassion, and hope. And dozens of essays explore topics about farming, food politics, cooking, and nutrition.

Born in South Korea, Mi Ae Lipe grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she first became interested in food and gardening. A self-taught artist and illustrator, she lived and worked in Wisconsin and Minnesota for 13 years, and during this time she met Jack Hedin, owner of Featherstone Farm. After doing a logo project for the farm, she became one of its CSA subscribers, which inspired her to create first cookbook, Tastes from Valley to Bluff: The Featherstone Farm Cookbook, published in 2008. She now resides in Seattle, where she works as a freelance book editor, designer, and publications consultant; you can find her portfolio on whatnowdesign.com. When not regularly indulging in eating (a favorite hobby), Mi Ae lives another life as a traffic safety advocate. She blogs about driving and road safety on her website Driving in the Real World at drivingintherealworld.com.