One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

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Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Kates garden hosts red mason bees, bumblebees, house sparrows and dragonflies. Hedgehogs, hoverflies and lots more birds regularly visit. The entire frog population of Brighton and Hove seem to breed in her small pond each spring. And now, toads are here, too. On summer evenings, Kate watches bats flit above her, and everything seems alright with the world for a moment. But she knows habitat loss remains a massive issue in gardens, the wider countryside, and worldwide, and theres another, far bigger threat: climate change. Temperature increases are starting to bite, and she worries our wildlife will be unable to cope with the new normal. In her uplifting new book, Kate writes passionately about how her climate-change anxiety pushes her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world. As in her first book, she invites you into her life, sharing stories of her mums ongoing recovery, old and new relationship drama, her intense love for her new rescue dog, and a few parties, festivals and hangovers are thrown into the mix. One Garden Against the World is a call to arms to all of us gardeners, communities and individuals to do more for wildlife and the climate. Climate change and biodiversity loss go hand in hand, but if we work together, its not too late to make a difference.

Author Bio

Kate Bradbury is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening. She is the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, works on BBC Gardeners World magazine and regularly writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the RHS' The Garden, BBC Wildlife and BBC Countryfile magazines. Kate also appears on BBC Gardeners' Question Time and the popular RHS Garden Podcast.