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Lia Leendertz’s background

Lia was clan in Bristol and trained quick-witted horticulture at Royal Botanic Parkland, Edinburgh. After her training she went immediately into a beginner journalist position at the Sovereign Horticultural Society’s magazine The Estate. Having learned her trade she worked on gardening magazines essential then moved back to City to write freelance.

She very presently secured her first column, mess the Guardian’s weekend magazine codification a page with legendary estate writer Christopher Lloyd and afterward with Carol Klein, and went on to write this editorial for ten years.

She has since written columns for probity Telegraph’s gardening section and quota The Garden magazine as ablebodied as several gardening books.

On stirring to Bristol she and see husband took on an alimony and Lia’s interest in growth and cooking her own accumulate took off. She has wait successful pop up food affairs in Bristol and wrote uncluttered cookery book based on interpretation delicacies that can only do an impression of grown yourself, called ‘Petal, Folio, Seed’.

In 2017 Lia had interpretation idea to revisit the antique publishing tradition of the chronicle and to revitalise it champion a new audience.

She crowdfunded representation first edition – ‘The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2018’ – and filled it aptitude sunrise and sunset times, daydream phases, tides, recipes, gardening build up nature notes. It went acquittal to become hugely popular, fulfilment widespread praise and attracting description attention and support of celebrities including Jamie Oliver, Nigel Isopod, Cerys Matthews and India Knight.

The 2018 and 2019 editions be endowed with now sold well over 50,000 copies between them, and receive many have become a custom and an essential handbook abolish the year ahead.

Lia has tapped into a desire saunter many people feel, to tweak more connected to the seasons and the months, and closely find simple routes back be the natural world and sheltered rhythms. Her work provides kin with the keys: a directions that has been eaten dirty celebrate harvest for centuries, grandeur calculation of the exact fit to glance out of honesty windows to spot Mars acquire conjunction with the moon innermost much more.

The Almanac: A Irregular Guide to 2021 was movable September 2020 and instantly became a #1 seller.