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You are What You Grow
Antonia Swinson
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Description for You are What You Grow
Hardcover.
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, ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905222643
SKU
V9781905222643
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-38
About Antonia Swinson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for You are What You Grow
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 ... Read more