Susie Middleton's Page

I can't help but be excited. The "official" pub date of my first cookbook, Fast, Fresh & Green (Chronicle Books), is this Wednesday. But publishing being what it is, the book is already shipping from Amazon (and ranking number one in Vegetable books!) and is already on display at Anthropologie stores. We'll have an official "launch" party where I live on Martha's Vineyard at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on May 7. It may take a week or so to get on to the shelves of your local bookstore,… Continue

I had a chance to visit a spectacular community garden up in West Tisbury last week. Truthfully, all I really wanted to do was lie down in the middle of this thing--it was that peaceful. But I was there to write a blog and to talk to Lynn Weber, the Dirt Lady. So I stayed upright, took some photos, did my job. And now I have a secret dirt recipe--a magical mix of mulch, manure, and seaweed--to conjure up when I get back to gardening. By the way the garden's up at Island Cohousing, a… Continue