In celebration of growing food and cooking from scratch, this month the Sustainable Illawarra team is giving away a copy of Stephanie Alexander’s gorgeous new cook book 'The Kitchen Garden Companion'. Retailing at $125, this comprehensive book is filled with 770 pages of delicious recipes and tips on growing food at home.

You can go into the draw to be the lucky winner of this great book by simply ‘posting a reply’ to this post. To be eligible to enter, you must post before 8 January 2010 and sign off on the post with your full name. The winner will be randomly selected and announced on 11 January. Please note entry is ONLY open to residents of Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama Council areas and you can only enter once. If the winner is not contactable within 2 weeks of the prize being drawn, the prize will be redrawn.

Good luck!

This sounds like an interesting read!

What a wonderful book to win, especially when you are new to the Illawarra, and have inherited a loved kitchen garden, complete with Olive, fig and bay trees, two loquats and a rash of self-seeded rocket, run amok mint and wild rosemary.

It would be a great book to win....:)

That would be an awesome book to have!

Sounds like a fantastic book and one that I would enjoy referring to when the vegi patch is up and running.

Joanne Danckwardt

I would love a copy of this book. I am a fan of Stephanie Alexander- I love the way she is feaching school children about growing and cooking your own food.

This book sounds like an invaluable reference for turning fresh produce into interesting and nourishing meals. I am particularly interested in the planting and cultivation notes for some of the more 'exotic' veges.

Would love to have a copy of this book.

Me, too! I'd love to win a copy :)

Fingers crossed - I desperately want this book but not expecting anyone to buy it for me for Chrissy!

I would love to win this. Might help me navigate my way around cooking some of the more unusual veggies that can arrive in my organic vegie box.Cheers.
Marina Scozza

I love Stephanie Alexander's work to involve people in where their food comes from, especially children. It is sad to think there may be a generation growing up now that have never really seen how vegetables grow and how they get from the ground to the table.

Cheers,
Leonie Kirchmajer

Are looking for some interesting reading over the Christmas/New Year break and this book sounds like a beauty.

Would love this book. I have started a vegetable garden and now cooking classes using vegetables grown from the garden at my kids school. This would be a great book to help me with this and to share with the children at the school.

Oooh lovely! Stephanie Alexander's writing put me onto black kale and we love it!

I would love to win a copy of this book as i am experimenting with different kinds of vegies that i can grow using sustainable gardening in my backyard.

regards julia

Sounds like a great book.

My 3 favourite things are gardening, books and serving fruit and veg so fresh it doesn't even realise it's been picked yet.
Like everyone else here I would love this book.

Love gardening and love cooking, perfect book

Love gardening and love cooking, perfect book

Would love to have a copy of this book - it looks fantastic.

Love Stephanie's project to put kitchen gardens in schools (http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au) - would love to check out her book!

I have looked longingly at this book ...

What a great give away! I'd like to win it because I'd love inpsiration for some new fresh-from-the-garden meal ideas for the "Family Dinners" I host each week for my extended family.