It was founded in 1984 by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, who were neighbors in Delaware, Ohio, as a mail-order recipe catalog "selling old-fashioned, country-style products.

[citation needed] Gooseberry Patch's five all-time bestselling titles—Five Ingredients or Less; Super-Fast, Slow Cooking; Meals in Minutes; Best-Ever Casseroles; and Christmas Kitchen—have each sold over 175,000 copies.

[1] To satisfy the growing customer demand, Gooseberry Patch has expanded the availability of their cookbooks through multiple channel partners.

A few of these include the National Book Network, Notions Marketing Corporation, and Send the Light Distribution.

[4] Gooseberry Patch was acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2015; it now operates as an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.