hello.
I’m Heather Crosby, author of the YumUniverse and Pantry to Plate cookbooks, and the Founder of Good Food Cooking School.
A career designer and lover of all things plants, I’m also a Horticultural Therapy practitioner (and Master Gardener)—forever dedicated to creating beautiful, thoughtful, experiences that help people connect to themselves and others by re/connecting with nature, creativity, and good food.
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If you have dietary restrictions or food sensitivities, Good Food Cooking School (GFCS) is an on-demand, ad-free treasure trove of courses, recipes, and meal planning tools that can help you cook and bake more plant-based, gluten-free meals.
GFCS meets you where you are, with exclusive recipes and support to make healthy eating easier, and super delicious every day.
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Grow
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Stay waterside in a tiny home designed by Heather Crosby—rest, relax, and explore in historic Shepherdstown, WV.
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In-person group community-based and creativity-focused Horticultural Therapy gatherings for reconnection to self and others. Play with plants, learn something new, feel better, repeat.
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A pop-up shop experience inspired by all things plants.
Textiles, art, and more made with homegrown botanicals and their pigments by Heather Crosby.
Shop, learn, get some inspiration:
Textiles & wearables
Dried botanicals
Paper clay vessels
Self-care goods
Pottery by Everyday Earthe and Tiny Works Studio
Plant-pigment paintings, weavings, and art
Biophilia
Floriography
Horticultural Therapy
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My cookbooks
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YumUniverse [Benbella Books, 2014]
No matter where you land on the diet spectrum, more whole, plant-powerful foods can enrich your life and improve your health.
This first book by Heather Crosby offers a creative collection of 150+ comforting everyday recipes without meat, dairy, gluten, or soy. This is more than a cookbook—it’s a treasure chest that will help you change habits and develop health-promoting recipes of your own, for a lifetime.
Learn more/get a copyFun fact: I also designed and photographed this book.
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Pantry to Plate (The Experiment, 2017]
IMPROVISE MEALS YOU LOVE FROM WHAT YOU HAVE.
It’s no secret: Cooking at home is good for you—especially if you’re trying to eat more plants (or less gluten). But cooking recipe after recipe can make a healthy lifestyle hard to stick to. Sometimes it’s nice to eat without planning (and shopping) ahead of time.
In this one-of-a-kind recipe playbook, get 30 mix-and-match master recipe templates that home cooks can infinitely customize and almost 100 new recipes based off those templates.
Fun fact: I also designed, illustrated, and photographed this book.
Available wherever books are sold.
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Following the bestselling The China Study Cookbook, LeAnne Campbell brings together top names in the plant-based community to share their favorite and most delicious recipes in The China Study All-Star Collection.
Available wherever books are sold.
After two misty spritzes—pssht pssht—into the kitchen air from the tiny amber bottle in my hand, Mike’s eyes widened with surprise as he said “Oh wow, you got it. It’s rain. And soil. Dirt. But fresh and nice. That’s. It. How did you do that!?”