This Allotment by Sarah Rigby

This Allotment by Sarah Rigby

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‘A celebration of community, belonging, intimacy, healing, reclamation, connection, growth, grief, birth, and joy’ Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers

‘Dip into these pages as an allotment sceptic and you may well find your mind is changed. If you have a plot, you’ll be reminded of why all the hard work is worthwhile.’ The Garden

This Allotment brings together thirteen brilliant contemporary writers in a glorious celebration of these entirely unique spaces: plots that mean so much more than the soil upon which they sit.

An allotment. A health-giving, heart-filling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their ‘patch’ and guard it protectively, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from overseas.

They are places of blowsy dahlias, cricket on the radio and cups of tea in tumbledown sheds; they are buzzing bees and the wisdom of weeds and seeds; they are resilience, resistance and freedom with a radical history and future. All life is here is this collection of vibrant original pieces on growing, eating and nurturing.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Chamarette * Rob Cowen * Marchelle Farrell * Olia Hercules * David Keenan & Heather Leigh * Kirsteen McNish * JC Niala * Graeme Rigby * Rebecca Schiller * Sui Searle * Sara Venn * Alice Vincent

Sarah Rigby is an editor and book coach, and Publishing Director at the vibrant independent Elliott & Thompson. Sarah has worked with some of the country’s best-loved and award-winning writers of nature and place, including Rob Cowen (Common Ground); Nancy Campbell (Fifty Words for Snow); James Aldred (Goshawk Summer); Rebecca Schiller (Earthed) and Alice Roberts (Tamed). Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in London with her family where she has an allotment and volunteers for the food-growing workers’ co-op, Organic Lea. She is very proud of her yellow courgettes this year.

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ISBN 13	9781783968466
ISBN 10	178396846X
Title	This Allotment
Author	Sarah Rigby
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elliott & Thompson Limited
Year published	2026-03-05
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.