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Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Margaret felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her weekend house upstate in an effort to lead a more authentic life by connecting with her garden and with nature. The memoir she wrote about this journey is funny, quirky, humble--and uplifting--an Eat, Pray, Love without the travel-and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away from it all.
About the Author
"I garden because I cannot help myself," says Margaret Roach. After 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a decade at Newsday and The New York Times, she creates the award-winning blog and companion radio show/podcast A Way to Garden. In 2018 Margaret was awarded the highest medal for lifetime service from the nation's oldest horticultural society. An all-new version of her first award-winning book, "A Way to Garden," will be published in spring 2019, on its 21st anniversary. "Eat Pray Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert said: "Margaret Roach writes with intelligence, compassion, and most of all--sanity. Her work is a blessing."Gardeners' laments heard each fall like "the season's almost over" don't sit well with Margaret, who has worked to make her Hudson Valley-Berkshires place a 365-day visual treat. It has been open for Garden Conservancy Open Days for 20-plus years. Margaret wrote the 2011 corporate-dropout memoir, "And I Shall Have Some Peace There," about walking away from "success" for a quieter life closer to nature, and "The Backyard Parables" (2013) , blending garden memoir and how-to. (Erica Berger photo.)
