This Allotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178396846X ISBN 13: 9781783968466

Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited, 2026

Synopsis

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‘A celebration of community, belonging, intimacy, healing, reclamation, connection, growth, grief, birth, and joy’ Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers

‘Dip into these pages as an allotment sceptic and you may well find your mind is changed. If you have a plot, you’ll be reminded of why all the hard work is worthwhile.’ The Garden

This Allotment brings together thirteen brilliant contemporary writers in a glorious celebration of these entirely unique spaces: plots that mean so much more than the soil upon which they sit.

An allotment. A health-giving, heart-filling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their ‘patch’ and guard it protectively, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from overseas.

They are places of blowsy dahlias, cricket on the radio and cups of tea in tumbledown sheds; they are buzzing bees and the wisdom of weeds and seeds; they are resilience, resistance and freedom with a radical history and future. All life is here is this collection of vibrant original pieces on growing, eating and nurturing.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Chamarette * Rob Cowen * Marchelle Farrell * Olia Hercules * David Keenan & Heather Leigh * Kirsteen McNish * JC Niala * Graeme Rigby * Rebecca Schiller * Sui Searle * Sara Venn * Alice Vincent

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Rigby is an editor and book coach, and Publishing Director at the vibrant independent Elliott & Thompson. Sarah has worked with some of the country’s best-loved and award-winning writers of nature and place, including Rob Cowen (Common Ground); Nancy Campbell (Fifty Words for Snow); James Aldred (Goshawk Summer); Rebecca Schiller (Earthed) and Alice Roberts (Tamed). Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in London with her family where she has an allotment and volunteers for the food-growing workers’ co-op, Organic Lea. She is very proud of her yellow courgettes this year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178396846X
• ISBN 13: 9781783968466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Rigby Sarah