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’m so happy at the moment, because my beautiful little kiwi plant is growing.
This was Jenny yesterday morning:
And this is her today:
The red hairs around the stem and on the leaves give Jenny a warm glow when the sun shines through, and she’s breathtakingly beautiful.
Unless stated, © copyright Emma Cooper, 2005-2011.
Aiyana wrote:
...on Mon, Jul 28 '08 (1290 days ago)