EPISODE · Jan 15, 2013 · 8H 14M
The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life [Written by Margaret Roach]
from Listen to Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Margaret Roach
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life Author: Margaret Roach Narrator: Margaret Roach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 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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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life Author: Margaret Roach Narrator: Margaret Roach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 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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