Author and cook Thom Eagle discusses his new book The Allotment Diaries, a grower's almanac charting one year in the soil... and one last goodbye.

2:00pm-4:00pm Windmill Community Gardens

Part memoir and part manual, Thom Eagle's latest book The Allotment Diaries is a beautifully observed seasonal portrait of life, loss and renewal on his father's allotment. From February's leek harvest, to a late summer tomato blight, to the bare branches of December when life still stirs, Eagle chronicles a year of growing, cooking and pickling as he ponders wildness and cultivation, family and grief, and the turning natural world.

Thom Eagle is a freelance cook, writer and grower based in Margate. He has published several books prior to The Allotment Diaries, namely the acclaimed First, Catch and Summer's Lease and last year's The Philosophy of Pickles and Fermented Foods, and runs workshops based on fermenting, foraging and creative writing. He'll be discussing the book with the wonderful Georgina Wilson-Powell, founder of Don't Miss Margate and an author and speaker whose work focuses on sustainability.