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The Garden Farmer
The Garden Farmer
Oct 24, 2024 7:26 PM

Author:Francine Raymond

The Garden Farmer

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in You Magazine

'A lavish monthly guide to getting the most from your garden' Daily Mail

A punnet of plums from your tree, a handful of gooseberries; home-grown nuts and herbs, and a few freshly laid eggs from your hens – all enjoyed in your own small plot. What could be more satisfying?

The Garden Farmer is an evocative journal and monthly guide to getting the most out of your garden throughout the year. Whether you are a keen gardener looking for inspiration, or just starting out and wanting to rediscover and reclaim your patch of earth, Sunday Telegraph garden-columnist Francine Raymond lays the groundwork for a bountiful year of garden farming.

Maybe you would like to get outside more, grow a few essential vegetables, some fruit trees or bushes for preserving, and create a scented kitchen garden to provide for you year round. Or perhaps you will raise a small flock of ducks or geese, or even a couple of pigs? Could this be the year you decorate your home with nature’s adornments, encourage wildlife back to pollinate your trees and plants, and spend celebratory hours in a haven of your own creation?

Each chapter of The Garden Farmer offers insight into the topics and projects you might be contemplating that month, along with planting notes and timely advice, and a recipe that honours the fruits of your labour. With just a little effort and planning, every garden can be tended in tune with nature, and every gardener can enjoy a host of seasonal delights from their own soil.

Keep up-to-date with Francine's gardening adventures on her blog at kitchen-garden-hens.co.uk.

Reviews

Wadhams's particular combination - of scientific passion, a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world, an ability to pluck clear analogies from the air, and outspoken analysis of consumer-capitalist politics - marks out A Farewell to Ice as essential reading.

—— John Burnside , New Statesman

A passionate, authoritative overview of the role of ice in our climate system, past, present and, scarily, the future.

—— Carl Wunsch, Professor Emeritus of Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The remarkable true story of a Yemeni coffee farmer... A vibrant depiction of courage and passion, interwoven with a detailed history of Yemeni coffee and a timely exploration of Muslim American identity

—— Entertainment Weekly

Works as both a heart-warming success story with a winning central character and an account of real-life adventures that read with the vividness of fiction

—— Publishers Weekly

It'll open your eyes - very wide - to the singular origins of your single origin

—— Esquire (UK)

Definitely one for book club

—— Elle (UK)

Eggers's narrative is guaranteed to be every bit as compelling as that of any novel

—— The Observer

Dave Eggers returns to his "factional" mode with The Monk Of Mokha, in which a Yemeni immigrant to the US discovers an obsession with coffee, returns home, and is caught in a war. Given his previous form with What Is The What and Zeitoun I have high hopes of this book

—— The Scostman

This is a book that celebrates ethnic diversity and the exuberance of the human spirit

—— Mail on Sunday

[Dave Eggers] is on a mission to use the platform he has created as a writer/activist to give direct voice to the marginalised or unheard... No story is more urgent

—— Observer

Bridgemakers such as Mokhtar courageously embody America's reason for being - as a place of radical opportunity and ceaseless welcome... a blended people united not by stasis and cowardice and fear, but by irrational exuberance, by global enterprise on a human scale

—— The Guardian

It's hard to imagine ALkhanshali's story being told with more pace, scope or sensitivity. An extraordinary adventure

—— The Times

Mokhtar's story is a remarkable one, full of derring-do, tenacity and exceptional luck

—— Metro

It is impossible not to root for Mokhtar. And as with all good bildungsromans, it is as much the reader as the hero who receives an education

—— The Daily Telegraph

Brad Stone's The Upstarts reads like a detective story: A page turning who-did-it on the creation of billion dollar fortunes and the ruthless murder of traditional businesses. No single book will tell you more about what life feels like inside companies like Airbnb and Uber as they grow from mere ideas into merciless machines for innovation, riches and unease. The sweat. The stress. The power highs of new instant fortunes. It's all here. You won't be able to put The Upstarts down. And when you finally do, you'll look at your own company and career in a totally fresh way.

—— Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Seventh Sense

Brad Stone gives us a lively, fascinating picture of the new new thing in technology - startups like Uber and Airbnb that are disrupting old businesses across the world. He provides a much needed glimpse into the companies that fail as well as the ones that make it big. And he points to the broad policy issues raised by these new technologies, which are surely no fun for the people whose lives are being disrupted.

——
Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

For a flavour of how fast the world is changing, turn to Brad Stone’s The Upstarts

—— Director

Brad Stone unravels the facts from the mythology surrounding the companies’ rise

—— Harvard Business Review

A penetrating study marked by the same thorough reporting that distinguished [The Everything Store]

—— SF Gate
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