Locavore's Handbook

Leda Meredith is New York City’s leading locavore. She is the author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, a memoir with recipes about her year of eating only foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show and in the New York Times and New York Post. An instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, she details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda’s Urban Homestead, at ledameredith.net/wordpress.

• Foreword by Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution will not be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements1. Introduction2. How Can Eating Great Food Save the World?3. Sourcing Local Food4. The Zero Miles Diet: Grow it Yourself5. Eating with the Seasons6. The Cost Factor7. The Convenience Factor8. Making Friends with Your Kitchen9. Food Preservation10. Feasting for Free11. The Single Locavore12. The Space-Challenged Locavore13. Afterword14. Appendix: Useful Resources15. What's In Season Chart16. Template for Your Pocket Locavore's Guide