From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love

I met Jimmy Williams (and son Logan Williams) tending their wares at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on a Sunday morning in Hollywood, California under the Logan’s Gardens banner.   I kept returning again and again to buy seedlings and converse on just about everything, but especially the heirloom plants that is their specialty.  From Seed to Skillet, is in a way all about Gardening While Black.   Jimmy Williams learned about vegetable gardening from his grandmother, a South Carolina native from a traditional Gullah community.  He weaves that knowledge into a easy to navigate guide to planning your garden, tending and harvesting.  The icing on the cake are a collection of family recipes that connect us from Africa to South Carolina and beyond.

For more about Logan’s Gardens, check out (1) the 2021 episode of Marie Kondo’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondo series on Netflix and (2) Logan’s Garden’s on Instagram.