I Heard It On NPR: Grow Your Own Wedding

Recently, on my way to 1980s New Wave Dance class, and listening to The Splendid Table podcast, I heard about the best wedding cuisine idea ever--possibly since I came up with the idea of a vegetarian hot dog vendor.

Are you ready? In this show, Julie Grant visits a couple who has decided to GROW THEIR OWN WEDDING MEAL.

I am obviously a DIY-er, so I was immediately interested in how to create our own wedding meal by growing and maintaining natural foods (not our cake, do you think I'm crazy?). Now, we live in a condo with no garden, and I have never grown anything in my life, but we do have a roof and a bunch of leftover plastic cups--our "The Wire" party was not as successful as we had originally intended...

Naturally, after hearing this splendid podcast, I was out the door after class immediately to wrangle up an Upside Down Tomato Planter plus this adorable book which I thought was a journal about gardening with your sweetheart, but it turned out that it is about actual gardens. Oh well.

I am very excited about the prospect of a homegrown, SuperUnion meal. Despite the fact that I am now a vegan, I am willing to make an exception for farm raised Quail eggs, which I'm pretty sure I will be able to procure after I find the perfect, vintage birdcage.


Rick wants nothing to do with my Grow-Your-Own-Wedding-Meal idea but I'm pretty sure that when I mention that roof gardens are really cropping up in Brooklyn, he will come around.

I'm sure the two of us can grow and cook a 4-star meal for 250 people. I should probably register for a Isi Thermo Whipper in the meantime...

-Heather