The women garden writers who inspired me the most
The women garden writers who inspired me the most
In today’s video I talk about my sheroes, the wonderful women garden writers who have inspired me the most in my own gardening, writing and design work. I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of them in person and see their gardens and I share those stories too!
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Books mentioned:
Joy Larkcom – Grow Your Own Vegetables https://amzn.to/3rshM0r
Oriental Vegetables https://amzn.to/3t1e9is
The Organic Salad Garden
Creative Vegetable Gardening https://amzn.to/30psd9e
Barbara Damrosch- Garden Primer https://amzn.to/3sZw7BJ
Theme Gardens https://amzn.to/3ejrj6c
The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook https://amzn.to/2OD92WU
Rosalind Creasy – Edible Landscaping https://amzn.to/3kXwABN
The Edible Mexican Garden https://amzn.to/2OfCMJt
Sarah Raven – The Cutting Garden https://amzn.to/38lhFfo
Garden Cookbook https://amzn.to/3qyEymc
Susan Campbell – A History of Kitchen Gardening
my book EDIBLE PARADISE:
https://shop.permaculture.co.uk/edible-paradise.html
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So encouraging for you to share the work of several great women gardeners on International Women’s Day. Thank you Vera!
I hope real women stand up for real women.
It’s my birthday next month so I now have a list of must have books 📚 I will check out your book I have just moved house we have downsized our house but upside our garden so I am desperate for some polyculture inspiration 😊
I’m so happy that my garden isn’t the only one out there that needs some work
I thought the whole ethos of permaculture was plant once and harvest forever, so how it be your garden is a mess? I have yet to see a tidy permaculture garden, they are either being abundant or savagely pruned for the sole purpose of getting healthy abundant crops. Just teasing you! Love your videos and knowledge
I have your book! It’s one of my favourites! Thank you xx
I don’t know how it is now after Brexit, but I have ordered many seeds from Sarah Raven. She doesn’t ship seedlings and plants abroad, but at least it used to be easy to buy seeds from her. I’m definitely going to have a look at Barbara Damrosch’s book, sounds very interesting. And I have been eyeing yours as well 🙂
i had the pleasure of working on joy larkoms new garden a few years ago in cork, a great garden writer, shawna coronado is another american garden writer worth looking up, by the way, on your recommendation im trying brads atomic grape this year, happy gardening ;o)
Thank you Vera, I loved this video and I LOVE your book!! It’s absolutely brilliant and so useful. I can’t put it down and I hope it never ends. Could you do another video on male authors as well? So I can expand my library with some reliably valuable volumes rather than reading endless recommendations online?
You are my inspiration, Vera. First your YouTube channel and then your wonderful book ‘Edible Paradise’ have been very inspiring.
Thank you so much for this video! In Denmark the garden writer I’m most inspired by is called Camilla Plum – i’m not sure if you can get her books in english (maybe some of the cook books) I think your book is great too! 🙂
My new gardening book for this year was yours. It’s a lovely book with very interesting bits that I haven’t gotten from other gardening books. I really got into making my own herbal tea last year, and I loved that part.
Hello from Sweden! Have just found your channel and am so delighted, especially over this theme.
One of my Swedish garden book favorites is Lena Israelsson. Unfortunately, her (in my opinion) best book does not seem to have been translated: "Gormetträdgården" where she describes by far the best varieties of a certain vegetable and vividly tells why. She describes fantastic encounters with a farmer in a remote village somewhere in the world. How the vegetable should be grown and above all, how it can be cooked. Thanks for the book tips! I’ll start with yours.
My booklist just exploded. Thanks for the list. Happy international women’s day.
❤️🙏🏻☀️
Ruth Stout is very inspiring. She shows you can garden in spite of back problems and old age. Her books are out of print but may still be found. She wrote for Organic Gardening magazine years ago.
Great stories and book recommendations!
Ik ben direct op Boekwinkeltjes gaan kijken voor 2e hands versies van de genoemde boeken. Ik heb twee hele mooie boeken van Joy Larkcom ontvangen: "Creative vegetable garden" en "De Salademoestuin". Heb al wat doorgebladerd en gelezen. Zeer inspirerende boeken. Zonder jouw video had ik deze boeken nooit opgezocht en gelezen! Dank hiervoor. Het valt me op dat Joy Larkcom biologisch tuinieren aanbeveelt en zelf diverse permacultuur ideeën in haar boek De Salademoestuin (Engelse versie 1984). Ook vind ik het interessant te lezen over haar eigen ervaringen van plantencombinaties. Welke goed passen bij elkaar, niet alleen voor het oog, maar ook voor de teelt.
Here is another classic that was published in the ’70’s it is a wonderful book of essays about gardening, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
by Eleanor Perenyi
What a wonderful video on the International Women’s Day. You are definitely one of my gardening heroins, Vera! Your videos and book inspire me a lot. Another my favorite lady author/gardener/cook is Deborah Madison. I’ll start reading from "The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook" 🙂
Thanks for this very inspiring video! I have been inspired by Stephanie Hafferty (no dig). She wrote two books: No Dig Home & Garden and The Creative Kitchen. She used to work with Charles Dowding (I think she still collaborates actually). May I add you to the female gardeners who have inspired me? 😄 And congratulations on your new book! It’s definitely on my to buy list 🤩
My copy of Sarah Raven is also falling to pieces! I love Alys Fowler for her thrifty ‘out of the box’ gardening, and for her garden to table books. ‘Abundance’ is great, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty gardener. I really enjoyed the video of what you are in a week. My kind of food 😋
Hi Vera, thank you so much for this video! I actually have your book coming after reading Liz Zorab’s Grounded and finding – once again – that well written books are just so much more inspirational than most other sources of information. I really shouldn’t be buying even more books, but after watching this I just put another two on my list LOL
Well done on women’s day! You certainly got it right with Joy Larkcom. I am definitely interested in having a look at the other books you recommend. Many thanks. Nuka.
I enjoyed this so much, thank you Vera! Barbara Damrosch is one of my heroes as well. I used to skip my university classes so I could watch Barbara and Eliot’s fabulous show, Gardening Naturally. I should have taken that as a sign that I was on the wrong path, but I’ve long since figured that out, thank goodness! 🙂
Ohhh! Thanks for those book reviews. 😊. I have some new authors to look up!
Thank you so much for all those book reviews. If your not opposed to reading (gardening) books on kindle: all the "edible" books by Rosslind Creasy are available as kindle editions. I have not checked them out, yet.
You are my first Garden Shero:) book is amazing! Looking forward for this season with your tips, today I bought a fig tree to plant it next to south terrace 😍 have a nice international womens day, greets from Olomouc!
Thank you very much, I am aways interested to see new sources of inspiration. I sort of assumed or hoped that Carol Deppe would be part of your list. I was kind of surprised that you didn’t mention her, she has three incredibly interesting books and is one of my main inspirations that got me started in gardening and making my own crosses.
Thanks for your lovely talk about inspirational women writers and gardeners. I shall try and get your book, I have certainly enjoyed your YouTube films. A person I have enjoyed is UK writer Alys Fowler. She also does some tv presenting. Thanks again 🐞
Thanks for your advice. You are my hero! I got both your books, because they are so well written and inspiring and off course, I follow all your videos full of nice topics and great ides. Dank je wel! 😊
Thank you for this video! I am going to search for your book!
My old favorite: Betty E.M. Jacobs, *Growing and Using Herbs Successfully* Storey Publishing, 1976
My new favorite: Niki Jabbour, *Growing Under Cover* Storey Publishing, 2020
I really like Alys Fowler’s books, I have Abundance, The Thrifty Gardener, Edible Gardening and the The Thrifty forager 🙂
One book that inspired me to expand my gardening experience, along with your book of course, is Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph. It’s a small(ish) book on growing fruit trees (surprise) no taller then you can reach while standing on the ground using mostly pruning techniques. It’s perfect for small yards and suburban gardens. Not rocket science perhaps but as a beginner it convinced me to give it a try. I now have seven fruit trees in my suburban yard along with the veggies and everything else.
Your book is very inspirational too ! Thanks from France.
the books I wish I had read many years ago are books by Ruth Stout she is inspirational and very amusing
Very nice vlog! I am lacking in woman written gardening books. Time to change that!
Is ‘Tuin Smakelijk" hetzelfde als "Edible Paradise" ?
Thank you for sharing so sincerely and well documented !
Very inspiring, clear, visionairy and informative !
Happy belated women’s day! I love how you mention the library, it’s a wonderful resource.