How to grow and forage your own food in Tamar Haspel's new book, 'To Boldly Grow'

That famous split infinitive from “Star Trek,” “to boldly go,” becomes a clever pun as the title of Tamar Haspel’s new book, “To Boldly Grow.” The author is a James Beard award-winning food writer for the Washington Post with the column “Unearthed.” She joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk about her adventures learning to grow food and forage and discovering the fundamentals of how we eat. 

The experiment that got Haspel hooked on growing food:

“I’m basically chicken when it comes to trying new things, but I married a man who is a doer. And when we lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the thing he wanted to do was put a vegetable garden in whiskey barrels on the roof of our condo building,” recounted Haspel. “Then we did it, and I discovered that growing food has this compelling sort of power; that the tomatoes that we grew in the garden … let’s face it, they were the best tomatoes the planet has ever seen.”