About Gather and Sow

Welcome to Gather and Sow: The Botanist in the Kitchen Newsletter, our new monthly missive! If you followed our Botanist in the Kitchen blog on the old Wordpress site, we thank you. We will henceforth be posting online content from our new site, powered by Ghost, in newsletter format. We intend to post new issues of Gather and Sow every month. Content on the old blog will generally remain available. We remain dedicated to illuminating the fascinating biology of our food plants. 

Each issue of Gather and Sow will feature three components:

• Food for Thought: an essay, possibly seasonal or inspired by current events
• Botany Lab of the Month: a botany lesson for the hands-on learner, packaged as an activity or recipe designed for the home kitchen
• Baker’s Dozen and Gleanings: We highlight thirteen-ish recent research articles and other relevant media, respectively, that further our understanding of the biology of our food plants.

FAQ: Aren’t you two writing a book? Is it done yet? Yes, we are writing The Botanist in the Kitchen book. No, it is not done yet. We have an agent (Hi Lucy!). And a book proposal document. We are close to being done with our sample chapters. Hopefully a publisher will take interest very soon. We’ll post updates with the newsletters. 

We would love to hear from you.

You can subscribe to Gather and Sow from the Ghost site. We will also publicize newsletters on the old blog  and on social media (Bluesky, Facebook). Please email us at botanistinthekitchen@gmail.com.