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Growing Guides

Short, friendly books about growing food where it's hot.

A series of small, beautiful guides — one plant at a time, start to finish. How to grow it, when it thrives, how to harvest and keep it, and how to actually live with it. Written for anyone who thinks they're "not good with herbs."

written, designed & photographed by Catalina Obando V.
Rosemary — Growing, Harvesting & Living with It, by Catalina Obando V.
the first title

Rosemary

Growing, harvesting & living with it. Everything one generous, forgiving plant can teach a beginner — from the ground to the kitchen to the bath.

  • one plant, cover to cover
  • grow-where-it's-hot friendly
  • photographed at the farm
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What it is
Illustrated plant guides
Kind of work
Writing, design, photography
Status
◐ first title · more growing
From
a taste of the voice

"Rosemary is not delicate. It is a woody, sun-loving shrub that prefers to grow in peace rather than be fussed over."

It thrives in heat. It tolerates drought. It dislikes soggy soil. Give it light, air, and drainage, and it will stay with you for years.

what's inside

One plant, all the way through.

Each guide follows the same gentle arc — from meeting the plant to keeping it alive, using it, and living alongside it.

  1. 01Meet the Plant
  2. 02Growing
  3. 03When It Thrives
  4. 04Harvesting
  5. 05Preservation
  6. 06Culinary
  7. 07Home & Daily Life
  8. 08Body & Self-Care
  9. 09Closing
a peek inside
The guide's table of contents
contents — the same arc, every title
A text page — Meet the Plant
meet the plant — warm, plain-spoken pages
A lifestyle page — fresh, dried and powdered rosemary conversions
lifestyle — photographed at the farm
the approach

A guide you'd actually keep on the counter.

Most plant references are either dry and technical or vague and pretty. Growing Guides sit in between: real, tested advice for growing food in a hot climate, written in plain language, with photography from the actual farm. Each one is small enough to finish and generous enough to come back to.

Rosemary is the first. More titles are growing — one plant at a time.

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