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How to Grow Food

Your Crop-by-Crop Guide to Growing, Cooking, & Preserving

Author Huw Richards, Sam Cooper
Hardcover
$24.99 US
DK. | DK
6-11/16"W x 8-9/16"H | 20 oz | 18 per carton
On sale Mar 17, 2026 | 224 Pages | 9798217133765
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Gardener Huw Richards and chef Sam Cooper bridge the gap between the garden and kitchen, profiling the growing and cooking of 70 crops.

In this super-practical companion for all kitchen gardeners, each crop has no-nonsense growing information on spacing, sowing, and harvesting, accompanied by delicious and simple recipes for food made well.

Whether you have containers on a balcony or acres of land, easy guides show the number of plants you can grow per square meter and the approximate harvest per plant so you can easily work out how many plants to grow and expected yield. There are also suggestions for the best varieties to grow for resilience and flavor.

Recipes are easily adapted depending on how much you harvest and range from dishes to eat right away, such as a root vegetable tartiflette, and preserves to enjoy later, like a tomato sauce to add to pastas and stews.

So if you’re motivated by food and flavor, The Homegrower’s Companion has everything you need to grow, harvest, store, and cook the tastiest fresh produce.
Huw Richards is a permaculturalist and digital creator based in mid-west Wales. Aged 12, he created his own YouTube channel about growing your own food. He now has over 900,000 YouTube subscribers and his videos have collectively been viewed over 100 million times. Huw sets out to make growing your own food as accessible as possible. He has already authored several books with DK: Sunday Times bestseller The Self-Sufficiency Garden (2024), Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower's Handbook (2022), The Permaculture Garden (2025), and How to Grow Food (2026). View titles by Huw Richards
Sam Cooper is a professional chef but has since left the kitchens for the garden, now working full-time with Huw Richards as a co-director for Regenerative Media. His fascination with seasonal and homegrown produce has grown along with his Instagram – @chef.sam.black has amassed 600K followers – where he posts delicious ferment recipes using homegrown produce. Sam wrote the In the Kitchen chapter of The Self-Sufficiency Garden (March 2024) and The Fermentation Kitchen (November 2024). He is also a photographer and illustrator. View titles by Sam Cooper

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Gardener Huw Richards and chef Sam Cooper bridge the gap between the garden and kitchen, profiling the growing and cooking of 70 crops.

In this super-practical companion for all kitchen gardeners, each crop has no-nonsense growing information on spacing, sowing, and harvesting, accompanied by delicious and simple recipes for food made well.

Whether you have containers on a balcony or acres of land, easy guides show the number of plants you can grow per square meter and the approximate harvest per plant so you can easily work out how many plants to grow and expected yield. There are also suggestions for the best varieties to grow for resilience and flavor.

Recipes are easily adapted depending on how much you harvest and range from dishes to eat right away, such as a root vegetable tartiflette, and preserves to enjoy later, like a tomato sauce to add to pastas and stews.

So if you’re motivated by food and flavor, The Homegrower’s Companion has everything you need to grow, harvest, store, and cook the tastiest fresh produce.

Author

Huw Richards is a permaculturalist and digital creator based in mid-west Wales. Aged 12, he created his own YouTube channel about growing your own food. He now has over 900,000 YouTube subscribers and his videos have collectively been viewed over 100 million times. Huw sets out to make growing your own food as accessible as possible. He has already authored several books with DK: Sunday Times bestseller The Self-Sufficiency Garden (2024), Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower's Handbook (2022), The Permaculture Garden (2025), and How to Grow Food (2026). View titles by Huw Richards
Sam Cooper is a professional chef but has since left the kitchens for the garden, now working full-time with Huw Richards as a co-director for Regenerative Media. His fascination with seasonal and homegrown produce has grown along with his Instagram – @chef.sam.black has amassed 600K followers – where he posts delicious ferment recipes using homegrown produce. Sam wrote the In the Kitchen chapter of The Self-Sufficiency Garden (March 2024) and The Fermentation Kitchen (November 2024). He is also a photographer and illustrator. View titles by Sam Cooper

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