I had no idea in sort of the importance it was going to take on in my psyche, and that it would become a book. But i wanted a framework to write about these things. The book's short. Its 230 pages, and it's pretty big print. It could have ben 600 if you'd described all the problems you had in detail. Theyre kind of hit the high points, which i appreciate. And yet, so we started off doing one food a day. But sometimes it felt like our idea, we ate a tomato from the garden, but that's really no big deal. On our daily caloric requirements. As time went on, i started to want it to be
What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power tools, and that when it comes to homegrown produce, you've got none until you've got way too much. But most of all, she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts in talking about her book To Boldly Grow, she learned that figuring stuff out to solve problems is more delicious than the most decadent of desserts.