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The Edible Balcony

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The Edible Balcony by Indira Naidoo is a delightful guide showing how urban spaces can be transformed into productive gardens. It captures the journey of creating a balcony garden overflowing with fresh produce, offering practical advice, recipes, and insights into sustainable, city-based gardening. The book is ideal for anyone interested in growing their own food in limited spaces.
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You might enjoy this delightful guide if you are passionate about transforming small urban spaces into bountiful garden retreats. It offers creative insights and practical tips for cultivating your own produce on a balcony, perfect for those with a green thumb living in the city.

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Journalist and broadcaster Indira Naidoo has always been passionate about food. Teaming this with her increasing desire to live a sustainable life, she has transformed her tiny 13th floor apartment balcony into a herb and vegetable garden that provides her with fresh produce all year round.

The Edible Balcony charts a year in the life of her kitchen garden, giving a season-by-season account with delicious recipes appearing throughout that make the very best of the produce.

A practical how-to section at the front of the book guides novice gardeners and green thumbs alike on the best way to garden in small spaces.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921382536

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2011

Country: Australia

Imprint: Lantern

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 792g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Indira Naidoo is one of Australian television's best-known broadcasters and journalists. South-African born, she first joined the ABC in Adelaide in 1990 and since then has become a regular fixture on our TV screens, most notably as the presenter of SBS Television's highly regarded national mid-evening news service, World News Tonight. She has also hosted the ABC's 7.30 Report, National Late Edition News and Behind the News, and made regular guest appearances on Good News Week, Race Around the World, The New Inventors and The Glass House, amongst other shows, most recently appearing on the first series of Celebrity MasterChef on Network Ten. Indira is passionate about growing her own produce and creating delicious meals with the bounty from her balcony. Details of her food adventures can be found at her blog saucyonion.blogspot.com.

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