In the Garden

In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing is a collection of fourteen essays exploring what it means to cultivate a garden, however large or small, as a way of connecting with nature and with other people.

Contributors including Jamaica Kincaid, Penelope Lively, Nigel Slater, Paul Mendez and Jon Day range widely across the subject, from nostalgia and the idea of paradise to urban community gardens as spaces for social change and the cultural history of herbs.

Whether the garden in question is a sprawling plot or a single windowsill, the collection makes the case that gardening encourages us to pause, pay attention, and notice the changing seasons more closely.