Freelance Writer and Author

I am an award winning freelance writer and author, specialising in how to grow your own food year round, affordably and sustainably, and what to do with all those abundant harvests.

New book: The Productive Garden

My new book The Productive Garden: An Essential Guide towards Self-Sufficiency will be published in March 2026 by Frances Lincoln. US publication date is March 24th, and UK is March 26th. Find out more here.

Learn everything you need to know about growing abundant and useful crops, and how to make the most of what you produce.

Beautifully illustrated with photography by multi-award winning photographer Jason Ingram.

Please contact me for more details, to request a press pack, to arrange an interview, podcast or feature, or for a review copy.

A best selling author and garden and food writer, I have been writing for publications and brands, nationally and internationally, for over 15 years. An acknowledged sustainability and organic gardening expert, known for my practical down to earth advice, I explain how to grow your own food year round, affordably, including seasonal foraging – and what to do with all those harvests. This includes recipes and tutorials for food, drinks, preserving, crafts and homesteading skills.

Contact me to discuss a commission.

My Books

My next book, The Productive Garden, will be published in March 2026 by Frances Lincoln.

No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored, Permanent Publications, 2017) won Practical Gardening Book of the Year and has sold over 45,000 copies.

Plant based recipe book The Creative Kitchen (2018) has sold over 10,000 copies. Books I have contributed to are:

What Gardeners Grow: 600 plants chosen by the world’s greatest plants people (Bloom/Frances Lincoln 2023)
Grow Organic Salad Leaves and Greens (Bloomsbury, 2021)
The Moneyless Manifesto (Permanent Publications, 2013)

Magazines and other publications

I am a freelance garden and food writer specialising in seasonal gardening, recipes, and homesteading. A regular columnist for Kitchen Garden Magazine and Amateur Gardening Magazine, and a feature writer for Gardeners’ World Magazine, I also write for brands (recent commissions include Dalefoot Composts, The Welsh Government, Burgon and Ball, and First Tunnels.)

Magazines include Bloom, Permaculture Magazine, Grow Your Own, Gardens Illustrated, The Organic Way, Woman’s Weekly and Growing Green International.

Photography

I provide high quality photographs to illustrate my writing.

Writing Awards

Practical Journalist of the Year 2025 – finalist (Garden Media Guild Awards)
Practical Journalist of the Year 2024 – finalist (GMG Awards)
Beth Chatto Environmental Award 2023 – finalist (GMG Awards)
Blog of the Year 2020 – finalist (GMG Awards)
Best Organic Blogger 2019 – finalist (BOOM Awards/Soil Association)
Best Gardening Book 2019 – second place, GLEE
Winner Practical Gardening Book of the Year 2017 – (GMG Awards)