Called “a blessing” by Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, and “a love story” by The Vegetarian Epicure author Anna Thomas, The Backyard Parables is available here to Auction bidders. The book has been featured in People, Good Housekeeping, and The New York Times. and was reviewed in the March 2013 issue of the Shambhala Sun. 

After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.

Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more.