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.
Herb Tasting Dinner June 6
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Herb Tasting Dinner June 6 〰️
Upcoming Events:
Shepherdstown Garden Tour May 16–17
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Shepherdstown Garden Tour May 16–17 〰️
A newsletter from Heather sharing creative/delicious events, inspiration, recipes, and other nice things.
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Cook
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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.
Learn more
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.
Also featured in:
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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.
My work has been featured in:
Almost all the time, I want to get my thoughts together into a presentable fashion before sharing them with others. Being misunderstood has been a lifelong aversion for me. I’ve always been very anxious, uncomfortable, and avoidant with public speaking for that reason, preferring the solitude and control writing/creating can provide.