This inspiring story details one man's quest to return a remarkable landscape to its best, most useful purpose. Nicolson is an entertaining and charming writer and this book will capture fans of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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"In his quest to restore his family home of Sissinghurst to its rightful place as a working farm and productive part of the England's food web, Nicolson creates a flawless narrative of enchantment, a bricolage of impermeable clay, crumbling castles, tucked away wildwoods, civic inertia, medieval history and a haunting childhood, as magical a work of art as his grandmother Vita Sackville-West's white garden."
-Paul Hawken, Author of "Blessed Unrest" and "The Ecology of Commerce"
"To see Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden return to life as an edible landscape fills me with hope. Adam Nicolson's determination to restore a working farm in complete harmony with one of the world's most famous and beautiful gardens is faithful not only to the memory of his family but also to the memory of the land itself. "Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History" has all the elements of a wonderful drama, but ultimately its message about the importance of good stewardship of the land and of nour