A Memoir: Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford and Wellcome Book Prize
A Memoir: Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford and Wellcome Book Prize
Editor of }Observer Food Monthly{, Allan Jenkins reveals his love affair with Plot 29 - a London allotment site where over the years he has grown more than just vegetables. Recounts his childhood years to the present day and all the memories in between
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`When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.'