Let's Plant & Grow Together - Your community gardening handbook

Bristol, UK

List of contents

Forewords
Introduction
An Introduction to Community Gardening
Extending Roots
Planning Your Site and Planting
Plant Directory
Picture Credits
Glossary
Index
About the Author / Acknowledgements
 

About the author

Ben Raskin is the Head of Horticulture at the Soil Association in the UK, and author of Zero-Waste Gardening (2021). He runs courses and training on organic growing including community orchards, and launched the Soil Association’s flagship Organic Apprenticeship Scheme in 2007. Ben got the gardening bug working on an organic vineyard in northern Italy, and has worked in horticulture for over 20 years, including a stint as Assistant Head Gardener at the UK charity Garden Organic. He also wrote Plant a Tree and Retree the World, The Community Gardening Handbook; Compost; Grow; and Bees, Bugs & Butterflies, all published by Leaping Hare Press.

Summary

Let's Plant & Grow Together tells you everything you need to know about community gardening, including how to set up and maintain your own green-fingered group.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Raskin
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780711287365
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-8736-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 350 g
• Illustrations: 200+ colour photos
• Series: Let's...
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; GARDENING / Organic, Allotments / Community gardens, Allotments, Organic gardening, Organic gardening / Sustainable gardening