"A Charming And Unique Primer Of The World’s Most Beautiful Vegetables" 
This enchanting book showcases 75 of the world’s most beautiful vegetables and harkens back to the volumes of an earlier age when books such as these were as much prized for their illustrative and literary style as their content. Each brief, delightful chapter of Exciting Vegetables is dedicated to a single vegetable cultivar, enumerating it’s visual and edible charms, relating its fascinating history, advising the reader on it’s successful culture, and even including a savory recipe tip. Each chapter also contains an historic or informative call-out that’s sure to engage any gardening enthusiast, as well as a beautiful, full-color rendering of every featured vegetable by outstanding illustrator Ellen Buchert.
240 pages. Illustrations: Ellen Buchert. Gibbs Smith Publishers. 

“all the qualities of an early 20th century classic...a charming book beautifully put together that would make an excellent addition to any vegetable grower’s library or a perfect present for a horticulturally inclined friend.” Juliet Roberts~Gardens Illustrated

“...the title’s claim is actually an understatement...truly exciting, incredible, extraordinary...should be remembered in December as a gift for any gardener and food lover...” Ken Druse ~ Garden Design

In this stunning follow-up to 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, Jack Staub brings the same charming detail, quirky and remarkable stories, and lovely writing voice to 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden. After tireless hours of research to bring the most accurate and up-to-date information, as well as the most intriguing facts and historical illuminations 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden provides a history of each plant, thoughts and tips on growing it, and ends with a simple recipe for serving up these mouth-watering fruits in salads, side dishes, breads, and desserts.

The final book in Jack Staub's edible plant trilogy, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden explores the most fascinating and beautiful herbal plants on the planet, their history and lore, both their historic culinary and medicinal applications, and an up-to-date contemporary assessment of their merits. Conceived, written, and illustrated with the same classic design, charm, wit, and wisdom that had made this series such a success, you'll learn which herbs to grow, which to savor, and which to use medicinally, as well as being entertained and enlightened by the host of interesting facts and myths surrounding each of them.

A beautifully photographed and evocatively written month by month look at life at Hortulus Farm, with an emphasis on the gardens and garden-making, the animals and animal care, property maintenance skills (building a dry stone wall... rabbit-proofing the vegetable garden...), harvesting and cooking from the kitchen garden, seasonal decoration of the house, and easy country entertaining ideas. Each month will offer up both valuable and charmingly served up information on how to live the "farm" life with ease, style, and contentment, as well as provide the reader with spectacular seasonal glimpses of one of America's loveliest garden/home destinations. Available Fall 2009.