Seed to Dust

Regular price €17.50
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Marc Hamer
A12=Jonathan Ashworth
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
alan titchmarsh
animals
Author_Jonathan Ashworth
Author_Marc Hamer
autobiography
autobiography books
automatic-update
biodynamic gardening
biographies
biography
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BM
Category=DNC
Category=WM
Category=WND
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
ecology books
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_home-garden
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
farm
farming
garden book
gardeners world
gardening
gardening book
gardening books
gardening for wildlife
gardening gifts
gardening gifts for women
gifts for gardeners women
gifts for mum
inspirational
Language_English
monty don books
nature
nature books
nature books adult
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
rhs gardening books
rhs gardening through the year
self help
softlaunch
wildlife books
wildlife garden
wildlife gardening
wildlife gardening book

Product details

  • ISBN 9781529112498
  • Weight: 362g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021*

'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail


Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature.

Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades. It's rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets. But it's not his garden, and his relationship with its owner is at once distant and curiously intimate.

In Seed to Dust, Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it. We encounter new plants and wildlife, gardening folklore and the joys of manual work; we learn, too, about Marc's path from homelessness to family contentment, and the cycles of change that run through both the garden's life and our own.

'An absorbing combination of memoir, gardening folklore and natural history' Country Life

'Life-affirming... Absorbing' Sue Stuart-Smith, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Well-Gardened Mind

Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. Both his books, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

More from this author