{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781455501984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.36w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2012 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/04\/2013 pg. 52\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Margaret Roach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403400605877,"sku":"9781455501984","price":31.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_232d65d5-5930-40db-8786-60884d62a27c.jpg?v=1774969090","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life-9781455501984","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}