Veggie Smarts

Name: Veggie Smarts
Brand: Regalo Press
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A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables

By: Michael T. Compton

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Hardcover | 22 April 2025

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Hardcover
288 Pages

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20.96 x 13.97

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Available: 22nd April 2025

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A nerdy farmer—and doctor with expertise in nutrition—explains how the vast majority of our vegetables come from just eight families of plants, which can guide how we eat them (“eight on my plate”), while recounting his journey of trading in city life to build a thriving organic vegetable farm.

Dr. Michael Compton shares his passionate and healthy approach to savoring vegetables daily from across eight veggie families: the Brassicas, the Alliums, the Legumes, the Chenopods, the Aster Greens, the Umbellifers, the Cucurbits, and the Nightshades. Trading in city life for an old stone house and a fertile field in the scenic and historic Hudson Valley of New York, Compton built a compact, organic-certified vegetable, fruit, and flower farm.

Compton shares lighthearted scientific facts, including why onions make us cry and how beets can make our pee pink, while providing nutritional information about the eight families of vegetables. As a farmer, he recounts growing a bounty of clean, delicious, and nutritious food for himself and so many others, and shares his exploration of those who farmed the land before him. You will delight in following his rewarding but sometimes frustrating efforts to reclaim old farmland for new adventures in organic farming. You might even find yourself wanting to test the greenness of your thumbs or to determine whether or not you too, are a natural-born berry picker.

This is a deeply personal celebration of growing and savoring life…and vegetables.

Industry Reviews

“In Veggie Smarts, Compton drills down on the psychology of our nation’s inherent food system issues and celebrates the pure joy of eating fresh, seasonal produce. He describes being magically drawn to the farmers market on his long journey from supermarket shopper to proud garden grower. We all need to eat more seasonal and local vegetables and appreciate the process of how they are cared for and tended to, and this book spells out the smart path to get there, whether you have space to grow your own veggies or just a few fresh herbs.”

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