Garden-to-Table

Appears in
Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking, and Preserving Food at Home

By Luay Ghafari

Published 2023

  • About
Farm-to-table, a concept that has been around for some time, is defined as a social movement that promotes serving locally sourced or locally grown food at restaurants and school cafeterias. Sometimes a restaurant will specify a radius (e.g., 100-mile farm-to-table), or a list of suppliers is made available to the public.
Garden-to-table borrows from the farm-to-table movement and shrinks that radius down to one’s own backyard. You are the chef, the farmer, and the consumer. You are invested in every step of the process, from the planning of your garden to planting, maintaining, harvesting, cooking, preserving, composting, and more.