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Earth Friendly Gardening Books Modern Mint are thrilled to announce we now have a collection of Earth Friendly Gardening Books …
Great Nature Writing
Here are a few recommendations for great nature writing – some are free, some will take you elsewhere to buy the book… All are well worth reading though, as they don’t just write about nature – but politics, capitalism, the economy and romance too… The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying Reason 2: Damage Built Up in the Natural World There is no such thing as an economy that exists without the physical world. The delusional idea that markets are separate from nature has guided mainstream economic policy for a long time — and now we are seeing the consequences in mass …
Feral
We recently read ‘Feral’ by George Monbiot. It is a brilliant book, without doubt the best of his we have read (although you can’t go wrong with checking out his other works…) It is an exploration of what it means to bring back the large predators, to ‘rewild’ the earth, the air and the sea. It is a romantic account of how to readjust humans place in nature. It is utterly fascinating and very readable. We made notes from several sections of the book, which we have written up below, which we hope will give you a taster of what …
Digging Deep In the Garden
This is a review of John Walker’s new book ‘Digging Deep in the Garden’, out now on Amazon… or it can be bought directly from Modern Mint! We have previously featured John on the Modern Mint blog (we called his writing subversive… that’s a good thing…!) It was in an interview we made with him about his work gardening organically at home in Wales. The interview makes for wonderful and inspiring reading… just check out the extract below… “Taking a deliberately earth- and climate-friendly approach… encourages you to garden more laterally, more locally and more gently. Why would you buy a polluting pesticide, …