EPISODE · Oct 1, 2021 · 32 MIN
Discovering gardening with Bloom magazine
from Stack Magazines · host Stack Magazines
"I just really needed a sense of freedom..." Zena Alkayat is editor and publisher of Bloom, the gardening magazine she started when she moved into a new flat and suddenly became somebody who had a garden for the first time. Unable to find gardening books or magazines aimed at her, she decided to go ahead and publish one herself. In this conversation she talks about how the magazine has evolved over 10 issues, the difficulties of independent publishing and also the opportunities it has opened up for her.
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"I just really needed a sense of freedom..." Zena Alkayat is editor and publisher of Bloom, the gardening magazine she started when she moved into a new flat and suddenly became somebody who had a garden for the first time. Unable to find gardening books or magazines aimed at her, she decided to go ahead and publish one herself. In this conversation she talks about how the magazine has evolved over 10 issues, the difficulties of independent publishing and also the opportunities it has opened up for her.
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