Indoor Kitchen Gardening for Beginners Format: Paperback

• An introduction to growing edible plants indoors, from defining your goals and choosing a space, containers, soil, and grow lights to overcoming potential challenges.
• Guidance for selecting the best crops to grow indoors with a focus on those that are quick to harvest, such as microgreens, shoots, herbs, wheatgrass, sprouts, and mushrooms.
• Know-how for growing leafy greens and root crops that grow well indoors—including radishes, carrots, lettuces, and arugula.
• Information on growing fruiting plants that take time to develop their rewarding bounty—such as tomatoes and peppers—and how to coax them to fruit in an indoor environment.

Elizabeth Millard is the author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening and Backyard Pharmacy. She and her partner, Karla Pankow, also own Bossy Acres, a 100-member community-supported agriculture farm in Minnesota that provides seasonal produce to members and area restaurants in an effort to build a strong and sustainable local food system. Millard often leads workshops on vegetable and herb gardening as well as herb preparation, fermentation, and cooking with seasonal ingredients. As editor of local sustainable food site Simple Good and Tasty, she encourages readers to connect with the state’s abundance of organic growers, ranchers, food artisans, nonprofit agencies, and each other, forging a stronger food landscape. In addition to farming, teaching, and editing, she has contributed articles to Hobby Farm Home, Experience Life, and Urban Farm magazines, along with many other publications. She and Karla live in south Minneapolis.