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Eva's Garden: Awesome Herbs & Edible Flowers

A new cookbook, EDIBLE PLANET, by Didi Emmons, all about Eva's herbs, is coming to bookstores soon.

Scroll down for a brief review and some videos.

Herbs: 

Available in 12 packs and 6 packs

Edible Flowers

Basil

Chervil

Chives

Cilantro  

Dill

Lavender

Lemon Balm Lemon Verbena Marjoram            Peppermint Spearmint  Oregano

Parsley Rosemary

Sage

Savory

Sorrel

Tarragon

Thyme

Lemon Thyme

 

 

Eva in her Dartmouth Massachusetts Farm

 

 

Eva's herbs and edible flowers are sold at

Whole Foods Markets

See videos of Eva Garden below...

 

Eva's Gorgeous Edible Flowers

 

 

  Click here to see Eva's video: How2heroes Profile Video about Eva Sommaripa

Click here to see Eva's video: Best Herbs to Grow from Seeds

Click here to see Eva's video: Best Herbs to Grow from Plants

Click here to see Eva's video: Mint Varities & Gardening Tips

Click here to see Eva's video: Herbed Egg Salad

Click here to see Eva's video: Calamint Sorbet

Click here to see Eva's video: Didi's Emmons, Chef, Writing a Book about Eva

EDIBLE PLANET, A Year of Herbs, Weeds, Greens and Grit at Eva’s Garden, by Didi Emmons

 

Check out some of Didi's recipes with Eva's Herbs. Click Here.

This is a cookbook about a farm, a farmer and a cook.  Eva Sommaripa is a brazen 69 year-old farmer.  Forty years ago, she began growing herbs and greens for her family.  A few years later, her garden evolved into a bucolic commercial 2-acre organic farm, growing over 200 uncommon herbs, greens, and edible weeds that are highly sought out by Boston’s top chefs.  This unconventional farm is a visual and culinary odyssey, impossible to absorb in just one day, with dozens of cultivated plants that were once wild.  After hearing many chef friends talk about Eva’s farm, Didi Emmons decided to visit herself.  As a chef and author, Didi was very familiar with quality produce, but nothing prepared her for Eva’s garden. The soil was a deep black purple.  The plants were so alive they seemed to inhale in unison as if they were plugged into one giant set of earthly lungs.  When she walked into the first greenhouse, the fragrances of the herbs were so potent they made her unsteady. She nibbled on lemon balm, rosemary, and many herbs she didn’t recognize, all setting off explosions of bliss in her mouth. In the ten years that have followed that fateful day, Didi has been visiting Eva regularly, cooking up original meals in the tiny galley kitchen for Eva’s flowing stream of friends, which makes for a farm that is as much about community as it is about selling herbs and greens.

But it is the food that Eva grows and forages that impresses Didi the most.