a four-book visual guide about seasonal gardening and cooking in the pacific northwest.

Completed in Winter of 2014, this project served as my senior thesis in order to complete my BFA. The four booklets followed the seasons, and moved from what I’ve picked up from farming, then taking those hard-wrought goods back to the kitchen to cook something nice. The booklets loosely followed CMYK as a base for overarching colour themes through each individual booklet. The booklets were hand-bound, and digitally printed, then contained together in a burlap envelope. The original Physical copies no longer exist due to a basement flood in my home in 2018.

the booklets were: spring peas, summer beets, fall radish, winter rhubarb

Each booklet contained: repeat pattern endpages, visual information on your seasonal crop, supplementary information regarding your crop, (such as how to hot-pack pickles, or when to harvest rhubarb), and a visual representation of included recipe for your crop. separate pull-out cards included with each booklet included a how-to card related to your crop and a recipe card represented in the booklet.

in clockwise order starting from left:

Spring Snap pea salad with lemon and mint

autumn roasted beets with parsley, citrus, and goat cheese

Winter rhubarb preserves

autumn radish salsa