You Are What You Grow by Antonia Swinson

You Are What You Grow by Antonia Swinson

Based on her hit Allotment Tales column for "The Scotsman and New Consumer Magazine", Antonia Swinson - the First Lady of the allotment - shares, not only her tips for gardening and allotment management, but also the effect of her time spent in the mud. Written with humour and vim You Are What You Grow is her extraordinary original vision of how the world ticks. Scything down the caricature of the allotmenteer, this is a social and political critique from an allotmenteer's point of view. Antonia explores issues such as the history of British land ownership, organic produce and self-sufficiency, community building and the psychological benefits to be found by allotmenteering. The work is divided by season with gardening tips, money saving ideas and promotion of healthy, and organic food.

More a lively account of her musings over a year spent in her plot than a practical guide to growing radishes, but gives food for thought, as well as for the plate THE SUNDAY TIMES

You Are What You Grow, Antonia Swinson's charming and amusing essays on our relationship with the earth, allotments and food and her reflections on our relationships with the land are the ideal accompaniment to Shakespeare, taking us out of our fuggy living rooms and into the reality that Shakespeare faced on his yearly returns to Stratford. THE GUIDE

Antonia Swinson is chief executive of the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition, an ex Fleet Street entertainment writer and business journalist. She was the first to write a regular allotment column in a national newspaper and her column still runs bi-monthly in The Scotsman. Swinson is a master craftswoman whose literary work and sagacity has been admired by, among others, Margaret Atwood, Libby Purves and Alexander McCall Smith. Swinson is a critically acclaimed author of both fiction and non fiction as well as an award winning journalist. She is and married and has two children.

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ISBN 13	9781905222643
ISBN 10	1905222645
Titre	You Are What You Grow
Auteur	Antonia Swinson
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Luath Press Ltd
Année de publication	2006-10-01
Nombre de pages	174
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