this was a very informative book, especially to me who is still exploring the world of vegetables and incorporating them into my diet!

Such an uplifting book! Michael enthusiasm for vegetables just oozes from the pages. I raced through the pages

I can imagine many different people will enjoy this.

As an experienced gardener, I found new information but if you're just starting to grow vegetables you'll be inspired too. It's also the story of buying a house and creating a garden, that then grows into a business supplying the neighbourhood.

It s also for those who would like to eat more healthily, Michael introduces us to different families of vegetables. It explains as a super taster (someone who finds bitter foods hard to swallow) I am ok with spinach but not broccoli!

This book is interesting, enlightening, entertaining, humorous (at times) and more read! The author has a conversational writing style yet delves into many topics of growing food, health, and lifestyle. I loved hearing about his old farmhouse and the history it has. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

3.5 rating. I was expecting more from this book. It was much more technical and written like a biography, history lesson and informational about vegetables. I really was hoping for some colorful pictures to keep the reader interested. Some of the praise said it was humorous and delightful, but it didn’t feel like that for me. I’m sure others may love this informational text, but it wasn’t for me

I really enjoyed this read as it has a lot of useful information that I will personally be able to add to my wealth of knowledge and my journey of eating more veggies in my diet.

A few things that stuck out for me are:
- We all know that we should eat more vegetables
- Eight on a plate holds promise that lower the risk of things such as being overweight, pre diabetic, type 2 diabetes etc.
- Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.

The definition of being veggie smart is: Having a thorough understanding of vegetables so that meals will be more delicious + health will be more optimized.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sending me an eARC.

This book has an engaging readable style, the author describes how they set up a large vegetable garden / farm, and by dividing vegetables into 8 "families" explains how / why they grow vegetables from each of these groups. There are lots of useful tips and some recipe outlines which are very tempting.

I have an allotment and I'm always keen to try new and unusual varieties and got a lot of ideas from this book. I’m now planning a large seed order!

I think this book would be enjoyed by any keen vegetable grower or eater.

Overall, the book was great and looks tasty! I did really enjoy it. Thank you for this advance reading copy!

A great book on healthy eating, with lots of vegetables there are no worries about fat and this book promotes health. I enjoyed the story of how his farm began. I ordered a lot of vegetables from my online supplier in response to the book. I am not yet ready to grow my own, not yet anyway.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for giving me a copy of the book.