Can You Survive Without A Grocery Store? Growing Food: A Guide for Beginners answers with a resounding "YES"! Van Krevelen offers up a host of information that will teach readers how to plant, harvest, prepare and store her list of top ten vegetables with step by step instructions. But the learning doesn"t end there. This book is full of opportunities for readers to connect with all kinds of resources across the web The author creates a 3-D Gardening Experience by connecting readers to Growing Food groups on Facebook, MySpace and Gather. Once there, readers can ask a real person gardening questions. She also offers a list of favorite gardening blogs. The book is further brought to life with links to other resources including podcasts, social networks, microblogs and videos. Book contributors include the gardening world"s best of the best, Margaret Roach, Amanda Thompson, Mary Ann Newcomer, Susan Harris and Debra K. Prinzing.