Edible Gardeners

Our sustainable gardening book, The Circular Garden, covers subjects including natural pest control, habitat creation, building soil from garden waste, getting good yields and preserving your bounty. It reveals lessons learnt over a decade of successful vegetable growing on a challenging site. There is inspiration for everyone from the novice gardener to the experienced veg grower in this concise, down-to-earth guide to regenerative gardening. Packed with realistic, pragmatic and budget-friendly advice, The Circular Garden retails at £10 (plus £5p&p in the UK and £10p&p for EU countries). It is available as a printed book and as an e-book in pdf format.  To order your copy, please email your order details and delivery address to ediblegardenersdg@gmail.com. Payment is by bank transfer, Paypal or, for garden gate sales, cash.

Jim and Sonja Brodie have been growing food for self-sufficiency on their 1.5-acre smallholding in Galloway since 2014. They haven’t bought any fruit or vegetables since 2016 and don’t buy any inputs, like compost or even seeds. Jim is a biologist by training, with a PhD in Developmental Biology, and now works in the third sector. His current day job is spreading friendship across Dumfries and Galloway with befriending charity A Listening Ear. Sonja is a freelance journalist, copy-editor and proofreader. She is editor of the ecological magazine Reforesting Scotland.