Forget farm to table - go from garden to glass!

There's no feeling quite like cooking with home-grown carrots or grabbing a fresh handful of cilantro from your own yard. Well, unless you're growing fruits, vegetables, or grains for brewing that is. Gardening for the Homebrewer is an introduction to the wide variety of plants that you can use for fermentations or infusions. Learn how to tell if your yard is a perfect site for barley or whether it's better suited to a fragrant collection of herbs. Learn how to grow, dry, and store fresh hops. Or go off the beaten path and grow everything you need for your first gruit, cider, perry, or fruit wine. Have just a balcony or a windowsill? No problem! A variety of plant recommendations will suit gardeners of all types, even ones with limited space.

Wendy Tweten is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives and gardens (and occasionally imbibes) on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Puget Sound.Along with her alter-ego, Miss Snippy, she contributes to a number of national and regional publications and websites. She is a regular columnist for the Kitsap News Group family of publications, and her work as been featured in Organic Gardening, Northwest Garden News, Master Gardener magazine, and Home by Design among others. She has won four Garden Writers' Association silver awards and two gold awards for her writing. Wendy's philosophy is simple: Design, color theory, and impressing the neighbors aside, the true function of a garden is to entertain the gardener.

Debbie Teashon is a freelance garden writer, author, and award-winning photographer based on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. She has gardened most of her adult life and written about it for over two decades and her photography career spans four decades. Debbie's articles and photographs have appeared in magazines such as Fine Gardening, Master Gardeners, West Sound Home and Garden, Master Gardeners, and The Oregonian among others. As a plantswoman, she spends her time gardening, taking classes or researching plants for articles and the online plant database she maintains on Rainy Side Gardeners (www.rainyside.com), a website to help gardeners in the Pacific Northwest.