Emma Cooper is a freelance writer, photographer and podcaster. An active organic gardener, Emma lives in Oxfordshire with husband Pete, three plastic compost bins, two wormeries and a pair of bokashi bins. There used to be chickens, too, but they have all moved on to pastures new.
Emma loves making compost and growing edible & useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. Her first book, 'The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A to Z', covers a wide range of topics from green gardening techniques to unusual edible plants and was published by Permanent Publications in 2009. Emma's second book, 'The Allotment Pocket Bible', was published by Crimson in June 2011.
I took hardly any photos in Helsinki. We took a boat trip across the harbor to the Suomelinna Island fortress, which was fun, and a nice change from city tours. Suomelinna is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but it’s also home to around 850 people.
Back on dry land I spotted some strawberries growing in a tub outside a shop. Outside the indoor market there was even a strawberry growing as weed in a crack in the pavement!
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