The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach audiobook

The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life

By Margaret Roach
Read by Margaret Roach

Gildan Media 9781469086095
8.21 Hours • Unabridged
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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 listeners and herself to keep on digging.

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Summary

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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 listeners and herself to keep on digging.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“I loved this book. Margaret Roach writes with intelligence, compassion, and—most of all—sanity. Her work is a blessing.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
“In matters of both earth and heart, Margaret Roach is fearless. She digs deep. What she finds, and what she offers in this lyrical memoir of a gardening year, is hard-won wisdom laced with humor, hands-on how-to delivered with a poet’s touch, experience embraced with fervor, humility, and grace.” —Katrina Kenison, author of Magical Journey and The Gift of an Ordinary Day 
“Witty, revealing, [and] poetic...This is the story of a real relationship: Margaret and her garden, a love story.” —Anna Thomas, author of The Vegetarian Epicure and Love Soup
“An insightful guide and a fun read.” —Publishers Weekly
“An enjoyable journey through the year with a knowledgeable guide whose fascination with her garden and its inhabitants will delight readers. Strongly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Margaret Roach’s The Backyard Parables is both a spiritual and scientific field guide for the modern gardener.” —BookPage
“Roach scatters gardening tips throughout the book, noting that other books provide more along those lines but that these tips are shared in the interest of spurring on readers to return to their own gardens. Many a gardener will likely find that motivation from this pleasant book.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Author Bio: Margaret Roach

Author Bio: Margaret Roach

Margaret Roach is the author of the memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There. She has been an editor at the New York Times, fashion editor and garden editor at Newsday, the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She is now a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her website A Way to Garden, which Anne Raver of the New York Times called “the best garden blog” she’d seen. Margaret is also the author of A Way to Garden, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers’ Association of America.

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Available Formats : Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction
Runtime: 8.21
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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