The Commons: A Year of Growing, Cooking and Eating on Fat Pig Farm

by Matthew Evans

The personal journey of one family’s joys, harvests, and challenges while living the rural dream in Tasmania, Australia, captured in one volume.

We all want more air in our lives. Brighter skies, slower days, more time for growing, for cooking, for family. In The Commons, a book inspired by the hit SBS television show Gourmet Farmer, Matthew Evans captures Fat Pig Farm’s year of growing, cooking and feasting. It’s part how-to, part evocative diary, part cookbook (with more than 100 recipes). It’s the perfect inspiration for those about to embark on a simpler life, a handy reference for those who already have done just that, and a vicarious solution for those who just want to dream the dream without leaving home.

Genres: Food, Cookbooks, Reference

320 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2019

Reviews

[Reannon Bowen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love reading Matthew’s books. He writes in such an evocative, beautiful way but it’s not at all pretentious. He has a conversational tone that makes his books so easy to read. And I love that he doesn’t sugar coat farming, he’s realistic & honest. I loved spending a year on Fat Pig Farm.

[Rebecca (Medusa's Rock Garden) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book makes me so happy. I could have done with more about gardening, but it was still amazing with the little bit of gardening that is in there.