These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Many of us are trying to be more mindful in our approach to eating by choosing seasonal ingredients, and growing our own fruit and vegetables can benefit our health, the environment and even our wallet.

Though her findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by the data. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).For more than thirty years, she has grown veg, run taste trials and ultimately discovered the best edible produce that rewards you with huge yield and delicious flavour for minimal effort. She was working in the forest service when she first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that nurture their kin and sustain the forest. With her wealth of experience, Sarah Raven shares the most reliable and bountiful varieties to grow, her tried-and-tested favourite crops, and unusual vegetables, herbs.

Following the year from January to December at Sarah’s home, Perch Hill, A Year Full of Veg reveals the secrets to developing a kitchen garden of your own – one that is colourful and generous no matter how small or large your space, and without a bare patch of soil in sight. After walking 630 miles homeless along the Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. Sarah's philosophy is that it makes you happy to grow something of what you eat, all year round, even if it's only some herbs and salad.

With its poetry, social commentary, and humor, this book will appeal to everyone interested in the natural world. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family has lived for generations, Professor Simard did not set out to be a scientist.A Year Full of Veg is a month-by-month gardening guide to growing the best seasonal veg, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers. She is the author of many books, most recently A Year Full of Flowers which was a Sunday Times bestseller. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. As well as planting inspiration, Sarah reveals expert tips and techniques for growing and harvesting flavourful crops from January through to December, all based on easy, efficient and productive techniques that ensure you'll always have something fresh to use in the kitchen. This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish, to peculiar sea-potatoes and sea lemons.

She has an expressive writing style and appears to have answered pretty much every question you may have about sowing, growing and picking your vegetables throughout a full 12 months. Over longer timescales, this book examines the lifespans of the oldest organisms, prospects for human life extension, the evolution of whales and turtles, and the explosive beginning of life four billion years ago.

Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last two and a half decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness.