Margaret Roach

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1) A way to garden: a hands-on primer for every season

Author

Roach, Margaret

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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In Margaret Roach's beautifully photographed and exquisitely written primer, gardening is a way to experience both the seasons of the garden and the seasons of the gardener's life.

2) The backyard parables: lessons on gardening, and life

Author

Roach, Margaret

Series

Thorndike Press large print biography

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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Margaret Roach has harvested thirty years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and distilled them in this memoir. After ruminating on the bigger picture in And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Roach returns to the garden and uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her.

3) And I shall have some peace there: trading in the fast lane for my own dirt road

Author

Roach, Margaret

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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Margaret Roach was editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Roach felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her rural weekend house to lead a more genuine personal and professional life by connecting with her garden and with nature. The journey she recalls is funny, quirky, humble, and uplifting - and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away...