{"product_id":"the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life-9781455501984","title":"The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life","description":"Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir \u003ci\u003eAnd I Shall Have Some Peace There\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with \"horticultural how-to and woo-woo.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Backyard Parables\u003c\/i\u003e, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Roach\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eAnd I Shall Have Some Peace There\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been an editor at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, fashion editor and garden editor at \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, the first garden editor for \u003ci\u003eMartha Stewart Living\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMargaret is now a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her website A Way to Garden, which Anne Raver of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called \"the best garden blog\" she'd seen. Margaret is also the author of \u003ci\u003eA Way to Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers' Association of America.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504562114834,"sku":"9781455501984","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f642d5c-973c-4eca-94ad-ea6ec9792fa1.jpg?v=1730822321","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life-9781455501984","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}