{"product_id":"the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life","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.\n\nAfter ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, 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 The Backyard Parables, 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\u003eASIN: 1455501980\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1455501980.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Roach, Margaret\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41497254756410,"sku":"DBV.1455501980.G","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1455501980-0.jpg?v=1782927695","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}