THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Modern Mint Shop
Modern Mint Garden Design has been up and running for almost 8 months now. As well as Garden Design services …
Modern Mint Environment
As a garden design company we at Modern Mint are always thinking about our relationship to the natural environment. We read writers like George Monbiot, Richard Mabey and Mark Lynas. We try to use our vehicles and power tools as little as possible. And we try very hard to educate clients in how to reduce their use of chemicals in the garden. But just how far can you go to ‘help the environment’ while living in UK society in 2014? Because to fit in, to live in anyway at all, requires you to consume – whether it is fuel, food with sugar …
Mother Teresa
An unusual blog post today as we wanted to write about Mother Teresa. Recently we have been reading the book No Greater Love… …and found ourselves making lots of notes from it. Though not strictly a gardening book we share with you below some of the ideas Mother Teresa has written in the book, and (hopefully) find in her words a tenuous link to gardening by the end. What made us pick up this book and start reading? It is Autumn, a time for dreaming and reflection. We were searching for something calm and ordered to help influence our own …
7 Steps To Get Your Garden Book Published
Written a book? Think it should be published and available to search for on Garden Books at Amazon. Want the thrill, the validation for your efforts, that getting your name on the cover of a book gives you? This could be the blog post that helps you. This week we took a course through the Garden Media Guild with Jackie Bennett (whose new book The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors has just come out.) She shared with a small group of us inspiring garden writers what you need to do to get your book published. Not everything we learnt is laid out below (it …