Amy shares her recommendations for her favorite books that celebrate the joy of growing and harvesting your own bounty.
2021 NATIONAL GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA MEDALISTS ANNOUNCED
The Garden Club of America announced the recipients of the 2021 national medals, the highest honors bestowed upon individuals or institutions by the GCA for distinguished achievements in areas related to its purpose. The Florens DeBevoise Medal is awarded for horticultural achievement in the fields of hybridizing, collecting or nurturing, and will be awarded to Amy Goldman Fowler, PhD for her work in the heirloom seed and local food movements.
Listen to Amy as she discusses her book “The Melon” with Jennifer Jewell on Cultivating Place.
The American Horticultural Society (AHS) honors “The Melon” with the 2020 National Book Award.
Every year, the American Horticultural Society (AHS) celebrates great gardening literature. This year, “The Melon” was selected for The National Book Award. Amy Goldman’s personal commitment to growing and preserving heirloom melons, along with her clear expertise, pushed this book into the winner’s circle.
“The Melon” is large, lavishly illustrated as well as informative, well-written, concise, and clear, in fact, a first-rate reference book. The American Gardener
“The Melon” is large, lavishly illustrated as well as informative, well-written, concise, and clear-in fact, a first-rate reference book. Tucked between photographer Victor Schrager’ s gorgeous, seductive portraits of each melon are carefully researched variety descriptions and histories, advice on growing, primers on saving seeds and hand pollination, and a complete list of seed sources.
The Rose City Reader recommends “The Melon” as a top pick for gardener gift giving.
Amy brings to life hundreds of varieties of melons and watermelons in her new book, “The Melon”, reviewed in Seed Savers Exchange’s quarterly membership publication, Heritage Farm Companion:
Adrian Higgins luxuriates in the world of melons as described in Amy Goldman’s new book, “The Melon”, in this Washington Post review:
Amy has been growing melons for decades, since she was a girl. You might ask, as I did, what it was about the melon or watermelon that she didn’t already know, especially after doing the first book. The answer gets to the whole enterprise of lifelong gardening.
Organic Gardener compares “The Melon”, to a ripe watermelon on a summer’s day: big and beautiful and something to be savored.
Amy offers profiles of 120 melon varieties, from the everyday to the obscure, illustrated with extraordinary photographs by Victor Schrager, as well as chapters on growing, pollinating, harvesting and saving melon seeds.
“The Melon” is Amy Goldman’s fifth book, and as with her other titles, it’s a visual stunner and a revelation. By Florence Fabricant in The New York Times.
“The Melon” represents nine years of cultivating, studying, tasting and having Victor Schrager on hand to photograph 125 kinds of melons at her farm in Rhinebeck in the Hudson Valley.