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Gardening with your gut instincts... growing your own edible resilience... why money can't buy 'the good life'... unpicking media delusions about peat use... kicking our addiction to oil in our gardens... the compelling power of asking questions. In this diverse, insightful and engaging collection of essays exploring gardening's place in nature, John Walker exposes illusions, debunks myths and wipes away greenwash, rallying us to challenge and change the over-consuming, nature-indifferent approach to 'gardening as usual'. This fourth and final book of John's earth-friendly garden writing, originally published in Kitchen Garden magazine as his popular and long-running series 'Digging Deep', includes 'Kicking the habit', which won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award in 2010. John Walker has been growing plants since he could walk, holds the Kew Diploma in Horticulture, and is an award-winning gardening and environment author, writer, blogger and micropublisher. Despite occasional squirrel-fuelled frustration, he is enjoying eking a new earth- and climate-friendly garden from a once bracken-riddled hillside at his home in Snowdonia, North Wales.

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'The most common sense gardening writing there is ... a vital message for everyone, gardener or not.' Petegardener, Amazon.co.uk 'Thought-provoking and well written.' Peter R, Amazon.co.uk 'Shows what zest can be added to our garden reading.' Helen Gazeley, Weeding the Web 'Cuts right through to the heart of the important issues that mainstream garden lifestyle writers simply don't address.' J. Ferguson, Amazon.co.uk 'An intelligent reminder of the joys and responsibilities of gardening.' Jebby7, Amazon.co.uk 'There is lots of humour.' Cherry Lavell, Gloucestershire Organic Gardening Group 'Would like to see some more of his gardening wisdom.' Savvyshopper, Amazon.co.uk 'An authentic voice in an often dull crowd of garden writing.' Darren Lerigo, Modern Mint 'Everyone who professes to care about the world we live in should read this book.' Nicky Kyle, www.nickykylegardening.co.uk 'John Walker's prose makes for enjoyable reading.' Nicholas Dakin-Elliot, Amazon.co.uk 'A very thought-provoking book which I enjoyed very much.' Valerie Fairbank, Amazon.co.uk 'These essays are more relevant now than ever.' Judith Conroy, Amazon.co.uk

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