A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us

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A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world.

Join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon, where, over the course of a year, she shares the inspiring, the mundane and the magical moments that arise from tending a garden through the seasons, and what they can teach us about living more sustainably.

Alongside tips for sowing and growing, wild ingredients to be found and delicious seasonal recipes to make, she shows us how the small joys of engaging with the natural world are imperative for our physical and emotional wellbeing. How the more we look at the world around us, the more we learn and the more we care. Woven throughout are folktales from her English and Nigerian heritage stories with nature at their heart that have inspired her, and will inspire us to live a little more wildly.

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Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, passionate about inspiring people to engage with and connect to the natural world. Poppys joyful, accessible content guides her Instagram following, whatever stage of the growing journey they may be at, showing them how to forage their own food, and live and eat consciously for personal, community and planetary wellbeing.

Poppy has been featured on BBC2's Gardeners' World, and is a regular contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society podcast. She was also the ecological expert on Channel 4's The Great Garden Revolution.