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Putting the brakes on runaway consumerism through 'freegardening'...rethinking our addiction to high-dependency container gardening...exploring our growing prospects in a topsy-turvy climate...why pulling down garden fences can reboot biodiversity...how local and diverse 'earth centres' could help gardening communities flourish...In this thought-provoking, cage-rattling collection of essays exploring gardening's place in nature, John Walker burrows deep into gardening's subsoil to uproot thorny issues, while encouraging gardeners to see their role as a force for good. This second book of John's earth-friendly garden writing was originally published in Organic Gardening magazine as his long-running and popular series 'Digging Deep'. John Walker has been growing plants since he could walk, gained the Kew Diploma in Horticulture, and is an award-winning gardening and environment author, writer and blogger. 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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'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 'Would like to see some more of his gardening wisdom' Savvyshopper, Amazon.co.uk 'Has anyone ever written so much common sense?' @palebd 'An authentic voice in an often dull crowd of garden writing' Darren Lerigo, Modern Mint 'A very thought-provoking book which I enjoyed very much' Valerie Fairbank, Amazon.co.uk 'An important read for everyone from the seasoned horticulturist to those who just happen to have a garden' Judith Conroy, Amazon.co.uk 'Everyone who professes to care about the world we live in should read this book' Nicky Kyle, www.nickykylegardening.co.uk 'Has made me think a bit harder about my gardening' Jebby7, Amazon.co.uk 'There is lots of humour' Cherry Lavell, Gloucestershire Organic Gardening Group

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John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and publisher with 40 years' experience in practical gardening, teaching and the garden media. He grew up in the countryside, caught the gardening bug while still at school, and trained at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He is also a qualified teacher. John was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden. John writes about organic, earth-friendly gardening for national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden. His recent book How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-friendly Gardening was shortlisted for the 2012 Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year. He also wrote The Bed and Border Planner and Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, edited A Gardeners' Guide to Annuals, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times, and has been shortlisted for Gardening Journalist of the Year three times.

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