Signed by the authors- with 100+ botanical cocktail recipes from farmer-bartender sisters whose style and originality is on display in this joyful book!
With recipes for alcoholic, low-alcohol, and alcohol-free drinks, Drink Your Garden: Recipes, Stories, and Tips from the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm has something for everyone! In it, we’ve gathered over a decade of our combined garden-to-glass mixology and gardening experience to bring you the ultimate guide on how to Drink Your Garden in a beautiful hardcover book published by Norton/Countryman Press.
- This book brings to your home kitchen our seasonal, cottagecore twist on cocktails and family-friendly happy hours through the syrups, tinctures, juices, spirits, shrubs, cocktails, and mocktails featured in Drink Your Garden.
- Sip through the seasons with recipes ranging from classic cocktails like Bloody Marys or Pumpkin Spice Espresso Martini to nonalcoholic sippers like a Creamy Tea Cobbler or Lavender Honey Cordial Spritz.
- Ideal for green thumbs or avid farmers’ market shoppers, the book reveals how to capture the vibrant, pure flavors of each season and naturally preserve them with easy-to-follow recipes.
- It also provides easy gardening tips for growing everything from simple windowsill herbs to drink-worthy vegetables and flowers.
- Featuring 82 beautifully immersive photographs and personal essays, this copy will be signed by both sisters personally.
Coastal Collins
Serves 1 | 12.5% ABV
1/3 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice (see Notes)
½ ounce Spruce (or Fir) Tip Syrup (page 53), or preferred syrup *
2 ounces vodka or preferred spirit
3 ounces club soda
Garnish
Lemon twist (see Notes) or a young, feathery spruce tip
Direction
Combine the lemon juice, syrup, and vodka in a cocktail shaker and shake over ice until the outside of the shaker is cold, about 15 seconds. Strain into a glass and top with club soda. Adding the soda now will mix the cocktail without flattening the bubbles. Add 1 cup of fresh ice or enough to fill the glass to the top. Garnish with a lemon twist or spruce tip, if desired.
* Spruce (or Fir) Tip Syrup
Makes about 12 ounces
1 cup granulated cane sugar
1 cup water
½ cup freshly picked and budded spruce tips
1 lemon, cut in half and juiced
DIRECTIONS
Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepot over medium heat. Stir to dissolve the sugar. After the sugar has dissolved into the syrup, add the spruce tips and infuse over low to medium heat for 20 minutes, tasting as you go until a lemony flavor is developed.
Add the lemon juice to enhance the citrusy flavor and extend the life of the syrup. Strain out the tips and any lemon seeds. Bottle in a clean container with a lid, and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.
Coastal Collins and the Spruce Tip Syrup Excerpted from DRINK YOUR GARDEN by Belinda Kelly & Venise Cunningham, copyright © 2025, reprinted by permission of Countryman Press, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. All rights reserved
Based in Buckley, Washington, sisters Venise Cunningham and Belinda Kelly run the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm and Simple Goodness Soda Shop, a café, tasting room, and event space. They host classes, live music, and regular happy hours, and their unique drink syrups can be found in stores across the country.
Photos by Rylea Foehl – courtesy of Belinda Kelly and Venise Cunningham
