This Allotment
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This Allotment

Stories of growing, eating and nurturing

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 10 Dec |Learn more

This Allotment

Stories of growing, eating and nurturing

About this book

'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

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Information

Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781783967889
eBook ISBN
9781783967896

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. A Beginning
  5. Fail, Repeat, Begin Again
  6. Soil and Song
  7. Of Circular Time and Vegetables
  8. Uncertain Ground
  9. Land Is the Work of Many Hands
  10. Allotments Are Anomalies
  11. Old Boys and Hidden Women
  12. Space to Grow: Women and Allotments
  13. Cultivating Community
  14. Peaceable Kingdoms
  15. From Sweet Peas to Politics
  16. This Allotment
  17. About the Contributors
  18. About the Editor
  19. Copyright