{"product_id":"herbs-yourself-a-year-at-the-community-garden","title":"Herbs yourself. A year at the community garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Bernie Munoz Chereau\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eMugwort Press, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eA meditation on communities, herbs, gardens, immigration and belonging, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHerbs Yourself: A year at the community herb garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e describes the creation and growth of a community-led culinary and medicinal herb garden in the heart of Fishponds. The book explores what happens when you pin a flyer on the notice board, talk to strangers, come to the weekly sessions, apply for funding, sow seeds in public spaces, tell stories over and over until shared identities are created. Even more importantly, what happens when you slow down and pay attention to herbs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eBernie Munoz Chereau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e is a prolific Chilean-British writer, academic, psychologist, gardener, mother and activist. Before, “Herbs yourself” Bernie created “Dove gardens”, a guerrilla garden in the social housing of Dove Street, Kingsdown, and documented it in the short film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=liNKnhPgh1k\"\u003eLoving Dove Gardens\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e. She has published more than 30 books in Chile and Latin America, along dozens of academic papers on educational inequalities. Her book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eNoelia’s diary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e, a fictional account of a girl growing up under the Chilean dictatorship, received an IBBY honourable mention, Colibri Medal 2017. She works as an Associate Professor at UCL, Institute of Education.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52635015938382,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/thumbnail.jpg?v=1743501329","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.live\/products\/herbs-yourself-a-year-at-the-community-garden","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}