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By harnessing the power of plants to grow more plants, my garden - which at the outset was always intended to be organic - quietly became vegan by stealth. Realising I had crafted a vibrant, nature-filled and no-dig garden from scratch, and was able to sustain it without lifting a forkful of manure, or any of the other grisly by-products (dried blood, bonemeal) of the animal-exploiting meat, dairy, poultry and fishery industries, filled me with an unexpected buzz. That same buzz has taken my growing, as well as my thinking about how what I do in my garden affects our natural world, way beyond just organic gardening. My veganic gardening journey delights and surprises and teaches me something new each day, and I know of no better way to bring beauty and abundance into our beleaguered, changing world.

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@earthFgardener has written such a brilliant planet-friendly guide to growing and nurturing a beautiful garden. So many top tips! And any gardening book that opens with nettles is going to be great ! Chris Packham, December 2023; Overall, The Vegan Gardener anchors veganic gardening to more familiar organic gardening ideas, an area where few are better versed than John Walker, who has written an admirable addition to the canon, which needs all the help it can get to reach a wider audience. HortWeek, February 2024; Vegan Gardener is a new book by the brilliant garden writer John Walker, who you may better know as The Earth Friendly Gardener. I came across John’s work and writing years ago now, and was always struck by his passion and how directly he follows his instinct for using gardening as a way to better the world. His approach to living on this earth may be soft, light… but his writing is the opposite – hard, useful, straight talking advice on improving soils, not wasting sunlight and balancing garden predators with those who ‘prey’ on your plants. Darren Lerigo, Modern Mint Gardening, March 2022;A great introduction to gardening using vegan organic techniques. Walker focusses on planet-friendly methods, with chapters on peat-free, avoiding plastic, repurposing tools and no dig. There’s good detail on how to make your own compost, using cold and hot methods, worms and different mulches. This can often be challenging for a vegan gardener and I found it useful advice, even for my non-vegan veg garden. I enjoyed the beautiful illustrations exploring possible designs, including a greenhouse for food and wildlife and the one, two and five year designs for an urban garden, with rainwater harvesting, wildlife pond, perennial and annuals and examples of how to gradually prepare the plot. Wildlife is a key, with many chapters on welcoming different wildlife and the final section exploring must-grow plants is helpful for any beginner. Permaculture magazine, January 2023

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John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental writer with over 40 years' experience in horticulture, teaching and garden media. He trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine, and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden magazine. His long-running `Digging Deeper' column, exploring the connections between gardening and our environment, first appeared in Organic Gardening magazine in 2006. John also writes about greener gardening for national newspapers and magazines in the UK including The Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden. He wrote Weeds: An Earth-Friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, and The Bed & Border Planner, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has made an earth-friendly eco garden in his home in north Wales. He has won the British Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times. He can be found at www.earthfriendlygardener.net.

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