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Garden soundtrack

February; the natural world waking up; the bossiness of raised beds

2:00 Reading from I was right all along, on my Substack, Bramble & Briar

3:41 the resilience of the purple sage

4:45 Interview with Maya Thomas

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Diploma in Herbology

Ballymaloe Cookery School at Ballymaloe House in Cork, Ireland

Elisabeth Luard, author, journalist and broadcaster

Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, where Maya’s great uncle used to work

Rewilding the Kitchen, Toast 2021, Maya Thomas

Returning to the Urban Wilderness, Toast 2021, Maya Thomas

Grow Easy: Organic crops for pots and small plots, Anna Greeland, Mitchell Beazley 2021

57:01 To Stand and Stare turns one year old

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Thank you to Maya Thomas for joining me on this episode of the Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast.

You can find Maya on Instagram, and also on the web at The Modern Herbal

My own book, To Stand and Stare; how to garden by doing next to nothing, is published by DK Life, and is available here

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