Community Garden Book Display

This month's book display celebrates the new community garden located across the street from the library.

The creation of the garden has been spearheaded by Christ Episcopal Church, which is also located just across the street. As someone who both works and lives within sight of the garden I want to personally thank everyone involved in the project. The garden is a wonderful addition to the neighborhood! I hope this is the first of many years to come, for the community garden.

Some of the books on display include:

The Green Guide to Herb Gardening: Featuring the 10 Most Popular Herbs by Deborah Harding. This book includes information about growing, harvesting, and storing herbs. Various uses and recipes for herbs are also included.

Ortho's All About Vegetables by Barbara Pleasant and Katie Smith. This book has general gardening information plus it contains specific information about the growing needs of different vegetables.

How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry. This book is not just for little kids. It is also not just for gardeners. I love this book and I haven't had a garden since I lived in an apartment in Chicago, over 20 years ago. The illustrations are wonderful; they are so incredibly detailed. I showed this book to a patron, who liked it so much she shared it at a recent Master Gardener's meeting.

Taste of the Midwest: 12 States, 101 Recipes, 150 Meals, 8,207 Miles and Millions of Memories by Dan Kaercher. Dan is the founding editor-in-chief of the magazine Midwest Living. If you like the magazine, you will like this book. If you are not familiar with the magazine, stop in and look at an issue. I think you will enjoy both the magazine and the book.

Vegetables on the Grill: A Menu Cookbook by Kelly McCune. In addition to recipes, this book will tell you how to grill every vegetable from apples and artichokes to turnips and yams.

Besides the books on display, the library has two and a half shelves of gardening and landscaping books. The library also subscribes to the magazines Birds & Blooms and Garden Gate. For those of us who are non-gardeners, the library has lots of other books and magazines.

Whether you garden or not, please enjoy the view of the community garden as you visit the library.