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Rough Patch

How a Year in the Garden Brought Me Back to Life

Author: Kathy Slack  

Rough Patch
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A memoir of breakdown, recovery, growth and lessons from the earth.

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A memoir of breakdown, recovery, growth and lessons from the earth.

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When Kathy was forced to quit her high-flying career in London, she was a wreck - burnt out, anxious, consumed by depression. But she found solace in an unlikely place - the veg patch. She put her hands in the soil and found a way to grow, to sow some small seeds of hope.

In Rough Patch, Kathy draws us into the world of the kitchen garden to reflect on the lessons she learnt from the soil, along with sharing recipes inspired by the land. Weaving together her own story of recovery with the year she spent growing and cooking her harvests, Kathy realises that the two are tightly bound together and that reconnecting with the earth could restore her hope and renew her life. Along the way there are tales of marauding pigs, transformative insights from planting leeks, recipes for an unchecked courgette glut and the discovery of why a radish seed is worth staying alive for. The result is a candid, hopeful and sometimes funny story about the healing powers of nature; a quiet manifesto for a more connected life.

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About the Author

Kathy Slack is a food writer, stylist, photographer and kitchen gardener who previously worked at Daylesford Organic Farm, before becoming a full-time writer and recipe developer, hosting supper clubs and cookery demonstrations with harvests from her garden, as well as food styling and developing recipes for brands and publications.

Kathy's first book, From the Veg Patch, was named one of the Top 25 cookbooks in 2021 by Delicious magazine and was shortlisted for The Guild of Food Writers Award for Best Cookbook 2022. She writes a regular seasonal recipe feature in The Simple Things Magazine, the Substack newsletter, Tales from the Veg Patch, and is a regular seasonal recipe writer for OcadoLife. She hosts two podcasts and is a regular on BBC Radio Oxford and Magic FM.

Kathy is also Fortnum and Mason's vegetable expert, hosting events and talks about growing food at the Food and Drink Studio. She also gives talks and demonstrations at various festivals, including the RHS Festival of Flavours, Big Feastival, Rock Oyster and Wilderness, all with a focus on growing and cooking your own food.p></p><p></p>@gluts_gluttony<p

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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group | Robinson
Published
6th February 2025
Pages
288
ISBN
9781472148858

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