The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781455501984)

Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more.

After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.


Author: Margaret Roach
ISBN-10: 1455501980
ISBN-13: 9781455501984
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2013
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.36w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2012
Publishers Weekly 11/05/2012
Booklist 12/15/2012 pg. 12
Library Journal 12/01/2012 pg. 98
People Weekly 02/04/2013 pg. 52