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Heart & Soil : The Revolutionary Good of Gardens, EPUB eBook

Heart & Soil : The Revolutionary Good of Gardens EPUB

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Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.

Kennedy recounts one newspapers April Fools Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-mans Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, admits he once wanted to write a stump-pullers guide to the universe and contemplates the dark beautyand rat feces smellof a voodoo lily. The articles are tied together with Kennedys assertion that gardening is a revolutionary act of maintaining harmony with nature that intertwines the human spirit with the natural world.

A book that will appeal to any who admire earths raw beauty, Heart and Soil is a collection from a respected Canadian who has dedicated his life to protecting and respecting the environment, cultivating his passion with a healthy sprinkling of humour.

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