My Book is Finally Done! Recipes For Reciprocity is now available as an Ebook!
This post announces the Ebook publication of my long awaited book and shares some reviews from those that have read the most up to date version
I am very excited to announce that my book is done and finally ready to publish digitally and soon it will be sent off to the presses!
It has been a long time coming and I want to thank everyone who supported my Kickstarter campaign (waaaaay back before the long years of the scamdemic) and I also wanna thank everyone who has pre-ordered a copy on my website since then for your patience and understanding.
For anyone that pre-ordered the Ebook via Kickstarter (who does not receive an email within 24 hours with download instructions) please check your spam folder and then if you still cannot find it send me an email and I will provide the link to where you can download the ebook version of the book.
I will also keep you all updated on how the printing process is going in the coming months.
Without further adieu, I present to you…
Here are some reviews from people who have read the most updated version so you can see what people have been saying about the book so far:
“This book is a magnificent achievement. It can help you learn practical ways to grow and cook mouthwatering food-as-medicine, and build deeper and stronger community, but it is so much more than that. Gavin has written a love letter to humanity and the living world and a manifesto for workable hope, all with an unflinching honesty about the crises we face. Gavin uses the nuts and bolts skills in the garden and kitchen as a launchpad to reimagine our place in the world, and the result is a solid foundation in the chaos. His hope and love are infectious, and the applied knowledge shared in his book is encyclopedic. I highly recommend it to you.” – Jason Padvorac
“Recipes for Reciprocity is a beautiful book that is very fitting for our challenging times. A real feast for the soul!” – Tessa Lena
“Gavin doesn’t just paint pictures with words, he also takes pictures of astonishing beauty. There’s a quality to his micro-focused photos of dew that make me feel like my eyes have been washed. And each photo is intertwined with deep knowledge that teaches me words like ‘trophic’ and ‘rhizobium’ for the connections between all things. And beauty, for Gavin, includes the functional and the delicious. I can’t put Gavin’s spirit into words better than he can, so I’ll end with the first couple paragraphs to his book:
In the following pages you will find recipes for much more than just creating food. You will find recipes for nourishing soil, relationships (with each other and the Earth), ways to nourish community and increase our collective resilience as we head towards what appears to be an uncertain future. I will also provide recipes for regenerating our hope, recipes for rekindling a sense of purpose, recipes for reciprocating the many blessings we have received and continue to receive and recipes for food for the soul.
Each moment is an unrepeatable gift, each breath an unfathomable miracle of celestial mathematics, molecular biophysics and a symphony of intricate symbiotic relationships. It took eons of tireless work for the stage to be set for you to live here, now, in this life. Mother Earth has nurtured and built a paradise and a sanctuary for you to experience, co-create in and share.
Come for the sanctuary, stay for the amaranth.” - Tereza Coraggio
“He has created this book as a way to invite people to fall back in love with our Mother Earth and to help themselves at the same time. If you’re into health, then consider this book The Bible. I’ve been so inspired by Gavin’s knowledge when it comes to everything food and health, and adamantly feel this is the future of medicine. He’s got chapters on permaculture, seed saving, companion planting, HEAPS of recipes, boosting your immune system, super foods, even regenerative poetry.” - Andrew Barker
“Gavin has created a very thorough and holistic cookbook that I suspect will be the model moving forward – excellent work!” – Matt Powers
“An indispensable guide to the empowerment, nourishment, and self-reliance that comes from knowing how to grow food in harmony with nature. Recipes for Reciprocity is one of those rare books that shares a wealth of practical information and methods in clear and accessible language. This book goes well beyond the garden-variety garden book that tells you what to plant where and when. Rather, the author shows you how to create an at-home oasis of nutrient rich foods, beauty, peace, and security.” – Kristen Krash
I would like to thank everyone who offered the helpful feedback, suggestions and reviews as I was writing the book but most of all, I want to thank my lovely wife Johrey. I would not have been able to publish this book without her sage advice, supportive encouragement, precise editing and endless patience with my horrible grammar (and run on sentences!) :)
She has her own substack and is an amazing writer in her own right. I highly recommend that you check out her newsletter and subscribe if you are interested in having access to powerful spiritual wisdom from a very wise and intelligent woman with a deep connection to the divine realms.
Below are a couple screenshots from the beginning of my book.
"Let Food Be Thy Medicine" was a driving ethos and guiding thought through the entire process of writing this book as I wanted to empower the reader to be able to use garden harvests to increase their health sovereignty and resilience while boycotting Big Pharma. Thus, I not only provided in depth info on regenerative gardening techniques but also included 70 plus pages with in depth info on super foods, nutrition and the health benefits of the crops I focus on in the book. I also wanted to expand the meaning of that phrase to being applicable to not only choosing to see food as medicine in the context of human health, but also to see food as medicine for the health of the living planet (via connecting the act of growing and cooking homegrown food onto composting, phytoremediation, mycoremediation and soil building). Here is a screen shot of the updated table of contents.
For those of you interested in purchasing an Ebook copy of my book that option is now available through this link: https://recipesforreciprocity.com/shop/rfr-ebook/
FYI: I am having trouble adding a viable PDF file of the Ebook on my website, so, for now, I will email each person after purchasing providing a link where you the Ebook can be downloaded directly.
I look forward to getting hardcopies to everyone who preordered the book I would like to again thank you for your patience.
Thank you for believing in this project and wanting to make this world a more regenerative place.
Wishing you all prosperity, good health, peace of mind, food sovereignty and the distinctly uplifting feeling that arises when you take action to stop supporting what was and begin supporting and building the more regenerative world we all want to live in, one step and one handful of seeds at a time.
Please announce when your book will be available in print... I don't do e-books.
Congratulations Gavin. A cross post was just sent to Solution Seeking Substack (please see the quote below). Thanks for all you do.
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Gavin Mounsey has gifted Solution Seeking with several inspirational, relevant, meaningful and beautiful comments. I thank him for that. I want to thank all who offer comments in Solution Seeking as well. Gavin's book is finished. It contains relevant and useful information Please take a look. Thank you.
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