Recycling in the Garden is a well written practical guide with ideas how to reuse and upcycle items in the garden by Angela Youngman. Due out 30th January 2023 from Pen & Sword on their White Owl imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This is a whimsical and fun guide full of projects for upcycling and recycling items in (and for) the garden. The author has also included useful information about resources such as water and energy and how to divert and conserve the resources to which we already have access. There are projects and ideas from small (bamboo insect hotels readers can recreate in about 10 minutes with items already likely on hand) to very large (recycled earth-pit dug greenhouse with recycled glass and materials). Not all the included photos are things which most readers will adopt at first glance. I can't imaging there are many gardeners, no matter how much they're also motor enthusiasts, who will want to turn an old scrapped auto into a raised bed garden!
There's a comprehensive index, as well as an abbreviated links and resources list included in the back of the book.
Four and a half stars. Full of useful and clear photos and good ideas. This would be a good choice for public or school library acquisition, allotment groups, community gardens, smallholders, and suburban gardeners.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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