The Backyard Parables Lessons on Gardening, and Life

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Synopsis

Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more.After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In THE BACKYARD PARABLES, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.

Book details

Author:
Margaret Roach
ISBN:
9781455518234
Related ISBNs:
9781455501984, 9781455518234
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Pages:
288
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-07-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2013
Copyright by:
Margaret Roach 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Biographies and Memoirs, Home and Garden, Nonfiction