🌻 Homegrown Fruit: A Practical Guide is Here! 🍎

Dear friends,

This has been a big and exciting month – my new book has landed and is here for sale + we have a new website! Thanks for your patience as we chip away at moving all the info over (so much info!) For now, you've got everything you need to grow brilliant food gardens this October.

There will be photos missing and a few hiccups, but bear with – all will be sorted and it's gonna be amazing. We'll end up with a resource of all my latest writings and advice, organised into really useful collections.

Along with our new website, I'm shaking up the newsletter. From next month I'll be offering a free version and a paid version. A big change of direction for me, but it needs to happen and I feel really happy that we've struck the right balance between affordability and keeping Edible Backyard afloat. All the deets will be in next months newsletter.

Thanks, as always, to Anna at Help Me Net for guiding me through the online wilderness.

Yours in the earth,

❤️Kath

Homegrown Fruit: A Practical Guide

By Kath Irvine and Jason Ross

This guide takes you step-by-step to an abundant, naturally healthy home orchard and along the way teaches you all the skills you need to be an epic fruit gardener.

Buy it now at KathIrvine.co.nz

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