Serving The Skagit Harvest – Cookbook for local food lovers

Serving the Skagit Harvest

This Book Dishes Up Fresh and Local Recipes, Tips and Resources Lovers of local food won’t want to miss Skagit Valley’s just-released, homegrown cookbook, “Serving the Skagit Harvest”. The book contains over 100 recipes and tips from 50 contributors in the Skagit Valley.

There are contributions from home vegetable growers, from CSAs and restaurants, from Graham Kerr—who has just embarked on a vegetable-growing experience of his own—and from the chef at Skagit Valley Hospital, who is sourcing local food for the hospital cafeteria.Interspersed with growing, harvesting, and vegetable-storing tips, the recipes are divided by season and focus on what can be grown at home and sourced from local farmers’ markets. A harvest calendar showcases the breadth of produce available in the Skagit Valley, and the resource section lists places to explore for fresh local food.

The cookbook also introduces you to some fascinating folks. Meet a woman who gardens in a wooded area of Bow and another on the banks of the Swinomish Channel, a fellow who grows food at the base of Mount Erie and one who gardens in a sun-challenged yard in Concrete.

Books can be purchased for $20 at Eat Your Yard events and selected outlets in Skagit County, including Skagit Valley Food Co-op in Mount Vernon, and Ace Hardware, Pelican Bay Used Books, and Watermark Book Company in Anacortes. An order form for mail order copies is available at the Skagit Beat the Heat website, www.skagitbeattheheat.org.

Eat Your Yard, a project of Skagit Beat the Heat, runs workshops to teach beginning gardeners how to grow food in their own backyards. Sessions regularly attract from 40 to 80 people at the Anacortes Public Library. Skagit Beat the Heat, the parent organization, has created other projects such as the Anacortes Community Garden (in partnership with the City of Anacortes) and the book, www.skagitbeattheheat.org.

Recipes and Tips from Eat Your Yard. Living Green, Living Well. For more information, visit

Serving the Skagit Harvest of fresh, local food. Profits from book sales benefit Eat Your Yard to help our community achieve a more resilient food system, a critical need in this time of depleting oil supplies and climate change.

This bookmakes a wonderful gift for anyone who values the unmatched taste!