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The Simple Things (Digital)

The Simple Things (Digital)

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“I don’t work and work to make money in the usual way. I have just enough to buy what I need”

Gardener and author Alys Fowler has cultivated a unique lifestyle, prizing growing her own, reading books and taking naps above material riches, as she tells Ruth Chandler
“I don’t work and work to make money in the usual way. I have just enough to buy what I need”
“ Large droplets of rain are falling heavily on Alys Fowler’s garden in a leafy suburb of Birmingham. Framed by her kitchen’s picture window, and the leaves of a fig tree peeping through a vine, it has a pleasingly wild aesthetic. A tunnel of trees bends away from view, concealing the end of the plot and giving the sense that it is far longer than its 60 feet. Alys is a champion of polyculture, in which ornamental, vegetable and fruit plants are grown alongside one another, and has created a productive plot rich in variety using organic methods. Herbs feature heavily and she harvests them for teas, cooking and remedies such as the strong calendula infusion with which she is treating eczema brought on by wild swimming in what turned…
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