Whether you are an avid gardener with lots of space, or you're laying out an urban garden, or growing herbs in a pot, summer is the time to get out, get dirty, and grow something.  Even better if you can grow something to eat.  Check out one of these titles on urban gardening, cultivation and city cooking.

Beckett, Ken.  Gardening Basics: How to Design, Plant & Maintain Your Garden.  SB453 G2778 1999

Bitman, Mark.  Best Recipes in the World.  TX725 A1 B525 2005

Day, Sonia.  Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City.  SB453 D387 2010

Fialka, Deborah.  The Washington Star Garden Book.  SB453.2 M5 Y6 1988

Feldt, Barbara.  Garden Your City.  SB453 F394 2005

Glassner, Barry.  The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food is Wrong.  GT2853 U5 G53 2007

Greenhouse Gardening.  SB415 G73 1989

Carle, Megan.  College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends.  TX652 C3277 2007

Goodall, Tiffany.  The Ultimate Student Cookbook from Chicken to Chilli.  TX652 G661x 2010

Harris, Patricia.  The Meaning of Food.  GT2853 U5 H64 2005

Hill, Tony.  Spice Lover's Guide to Herbs & Spices.  TX819 H4 H55 2004

Jacob, Jeanne.  World Cookbook for Students.  TX725 A1 J23 2007

Kimball, Christopher.  The Kitchen Detective: A Culinary Sleuth Solves Common Cooking Mysteries.  TX651 K565x 2003

Madden, Amy.  Look, Dude, I Can Cook: Four Years of College Cooking Made Easy.  TX833.5 M34334x 2007

Madigan, Carleen.  The Backyard Homestead: Produce All The Food Your Need on Just a Quarter Acre.  SB321 B1434 2009

McDonough, Kate.  The City Cook Book: Big City, Small Kitchen, Limitless Ingredients, No Time.  TX714 M3824 2010

McGee, Harold.  On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.  TX651 M27 2004

Meaning of Food.  DVD GT2853 U5 H64 2005b

Meyers, Perla.  How to Peel a Peach and 1001 Outher Things Every Good Cook Needs to Know.  TX652 M473 2004

Patterson, Jean.  Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student.  TX652 P325 2004

Pavlina, Erin.  Vegan Family Favorites.  TX837 P385x 2005

Pelczar, Rita.  Homegrown Harvest: A Season-by-Season Guide to a Sustainable Kitchen Garden.  SB321 H66x 2010

Perry, Luddene.  Field Guide to Buying Organic.  TX369 P47 2005

Pleasant, Barbara.  Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build and Grow.  SB453 E27 2006

Schwarcz, Joe.  An Apple A Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths about the Food we Eat.  TX355 S3475 2009

Smith, Jeremy.  Growing a Garden in the City.  SB457.3 S64 2010 

Soler, Ivette.  Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden.  SB475.9 E35 S65 2011

Stacey, Michelle.  Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate and Fear Food.  GT2853 U5 S73 1994

Tallamy, Douglas.  Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants.  SB439 T275 2009