The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A To Z
If you would like to buy a signed copy, direct from the author, then please email Emma.
ISBN 1856230465 / 9781856230469
376 pages, 190 colour photographs
RRP £14.95
Praise for ‘The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A to Z’
“An indispensable compendium for a new generation of eco-conscious kitchen gardeners.” Elspeth Thompson, The Sunday Telegraph gardening columnist
“An ideal companion for anyone getting dirt under their fingernails for the first time.” Tracey Smith, writer / broadcaster on sustainable living, author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas
“Emma’s style is light and friendly yet at the same time informative and based on personal experience…. A dual purpose book – a concise and valuable practical guide, but at the same time a lovely little read for the deck chair or hammock!” Graham Burnett, permaculture teacher and author (read his Permaculture Magazine review here)
“Emma Cooper is an unstoppable force, one of life’s positive people, and The Alternative Kitchen Garden sets out her inspiring personal vision of how to grow your own.” Emma Townshend, Independent on Sunday gardening columnist
“Hallelujah – a kitchen garden handbook for the genuine newbie. Instead of dry facts and statistics, here you have a description of the life and soul of a garden.” Corrina Gordon-Barnes, award-winning writer of The World Needs Your Passion web site
“The Alternative Kitchen Garden is not just an A-Z, it is an inspirational tour of an edible garden that can be recreated in the smallest of backyards. An essential guide for a new generation of gardeners who are keen to join the kitchen garden revolution.” Karen Cannard, blogger and author of The Rubbish Diet
Events
Keep an eye on Emma’s upcoming appearances if you would like to meet her or attend a signing.
- 22nd August 2010
London Permaculture Festival
Another signing and seed swapping session :)
- 18th September 2010
Seed swapping and book signing at Harvest VegEvent 2010 at the Victoria rooms in Fordingbridge with Transition Town Fordingbridge.
If you would like more information about an event, or to arrange your own, then please email Emma.
Permaculture Magazine articles
If you’d like to have a peek at Emma’s writing style, and some of the unusual edibles mentioned in the book, then have a look at her Permaculture Magazine articles, now available to download in full colour PDF files.
In the current PM issue (61) Emma introduces you to her garden and her gardening philosophy in My Kitchen Garden.
In issue 54 she introduced achocha, one of the Lost Crops of the Incas, in The Lady’s Slipper, the Fat Baby and the Exploding Cucumber.
And, in issue 53, ‘Roof Top Oasis Revisited‘ looks at the growth of the RISC Roof Garden, 5 years after it was created.
Downloads
I am turning some of the photos from the book into downloadable wallpaper files:
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There are more to come! Watch this space :)

Where to buy the book
Amazon.com
Blackwells
Chelsea Green
Cygnus Books
Good Life Press
River Cottage
The Book Depository
The Green Shopping Catalogue
Walnut Books
Download the press release
Email Emma
Reviews
Bifurcated Carrots
City Bumpkin
Ethical Pulse
Fennel and Fern
Garden Monkey's Book Flange
goodreads
Green (Living) Review
Google Books
Mid Wales Permaculture Network
Nature With Me
New Forest Transition
Permaculture Magazine no. 61
RALPH
The Cottage Smallholder
The Ecologist
TimesOnline
Veg Plotting
Interviews
Blogroll
Common Ground
Corrina Gordon-Barnes
Eden Project
Elspeth Thompson
Emma Townshend
Garden Organic
Green Shopping Catalogue
Harlequin Ladybird Survey
Heritage Seed Library
Karen Cannard
Kore Wild Fruit Nursery
Mark Diacono
Master Composters
Permaculture Magazine
Permanent Publications
Real Seeds
Recycle Now
RISC Roof Garden
Seeds of Italy
Spiralseed
The Alternative Kitchen Garden Show
The Organic Gardening Catalogue
Thrive
Tracey Smith
Wiggly Wigglers
